- Two women protesting the UK government’s investments in fossil fuels vandalized Vincent van Gogh’s famous painting “Sunflowers” in London’s National Gallery Friday.
- Both women wore T-shirts bearing the words “Just Stop Oil,” the name of an environmental activism group that has staged numerous attacks on artworks in recent months as well as vandalized public property and caused chaos by blocking traffic in central London.
- Other works targeted of late include the National Gallery’s “The Hay Wain” (1821) by British artist John Constable, to which vandals affixed a reimagined version of a dystopian landscape in July; as well as van Gogh’s “Peach Trees in Blossom” (1889) at London’s Courtauld Gallery, when two individuals glued their hands to its frame this June.
Van Gogh Sunflowers painting vandalized by London protesters 14.10.2022
