French police arrested two activists from Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response) at the Musée du Louvre in Paris following their protest in front of Eugène Delacroix’s “Liberty Leading the People” (1830). A video shared on the group’s social media depicted the pair affixing
Two women were arrested on May 6 at the Centre Pompidou-Metz after they targeted Gustave Courbet’s controversial painting “The Origin of the World” (1866), by spray-painting the words “Me Too” on it. The painting is covered with glass for protection, police reported
The protest group Palestine Action slashed a painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College. Lord Arthur James Balfour, the British Foreign Secretary, played a significant role in establishing the state of Israel. In 1917, Balfour wrote a
Activists from the group This Is Rigged recently staged two protests in Glasgow. The first protest occurred inside the Kelvingrove Art Gallery and Museum on March 3, while the second occurred at George Square on March 4. At the Kelvingrove Art Gallery
The Berlin Film Festival commenced with a spirited press conference, but the political fervor intensified as three separate groups of protesters gathered at Potsdamer Platz just before the commencement of the opening night festivities. The first group consisted of approximately 50 individuals
On Valentine’s Day, activists staged a protest at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, calling for the institution to sever its connections with Henry Kravis, co-founder of investment firm KKR & Co., and his wife Marie-Josée Kravis. The Kravis couple,
Ten protesters were arrested during a rally in solidarity with Palestine outside the Brooklyn Museum on February 10. According to a police report obtained by Hyperallergic, the charges against the demonstrators include resisting arrest, assault, creating unreasonable noise, harassment, and obstructing governmental
Protesters have thrown soup at the glass-encased Mona Lisa painting in France, advocating for the right to “healthy and sustainable food.” The 16th Century masterpiece by Leonardo da Vinci, housed at the Louvre in central Paris, remained unharmed behind its bulletproof glass.
More than 1,000 artists across the cultural field—including Ben Rivers, Brian Eno, Adham Faramawy, and Tai Shani—have signed a new open letter that accuses Bristol’s Arnolfini International Centre for Contemporary Arts of “censorship of Palestinian culture,” after the institution canceled two events
Palestinian solidarity groups, activists and community members marked international Human Rights Day with a demonstration for Palestinian human rights at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights (CMHR), to bring attention to the human rights crisis in Gaza, and to call for an
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