On March 8, 2024, a woman from the UK group “Palestine Action” completely destroyed a painting created 110 years ago by the famed Anglo-Hungarian painter Philip Alexius de László (1869-1937). The group defines itself as a “direct action network dismantling British complicity with Israeli apartheid.” The vandal attacked László’s 1914 oil painting Arthur James Balfour, housed at the Trinity College…
On Feb. 14, 2024, two men from the “Declare Emergency” climate alarmist group, entered the Rotunda of the National Archives in Washington DC at around 2:30 in the afternoon. They pulled bags of red pigment powder from their pockets, spattering the contents over the protective glass encasement covering the US Constitution. The fine talcum-like red pigment soiled the encasement and…
On Sunday morning Jan. 28, 2024, two members of the French eco-extremist group Riposte Alimentaire (Food Response), invaded the Musée du Louvre in Paris with ill intent. They made their way to the Salle des Estates room that displays the Mona Lisa by Leonardo da Vinci. Arriving in the room they hurled globs of pumpkin soup on the masterpiece from…
O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, How faithfully you blossom! Through summer’s heat and winter’s chill Your leaves are green and blooming still. O Tannenbaum, O Tannenbaum, How faithfully you blossom! The above lyrics are from an 1824 song written by German composer Ernst Anschütz. Over the years his composition O Tannenbaum (in German ‘Tannenbaum’ means fir tree), became closely associated with…
On Nov. 6, 2023, members of the British eco-extremist group Just Stop Oil, attacked a celebrated oil painting hanging in the National Gallery in London. Two vandals wearing Just Stop Oil t-shirts, approached the masterpiece and began pounding it with hammers, shattering its protective glass covering. The artwork, Venus at her Mirror, was created by famed Spanish artist Diego Velázquez…
On Oct. 27, 2003, a dozen members of the French climate-alarmist group Derniere Renovation (Final Renovation), attacked the Pyramid de Louvre, the main entryway to the world famous Louvre Museum in the heart of Paris, France. A vandal from the eco-extremist group climbed the 71 foot glass and metal pyramid using rock climbing gear, then splashed the large diamond shaped…
On June 14, 2023, two women from the eco-extremist group Återställ Våtmarker (Restore Wetlands), raided the National Museum in Stockholm, Sweden. They attacked Le Jardin de l’artiste à Giverny (The artist’s garden at Giverny), a painting created in 1900 by the French Impressionist Claude Monet. The two vandals, a 28-year-old nurse and a 25-year-old nursing student, wore white T-shirts emblazoned…
Funding is one activity that has sustained the acts of vandalism carried out against art museums by the UK group Just Stop Oil. That faction has received financial backing from the Climate Emergency Fund, a global network of “climate activists” headquartered in Beverly Hills, California. This was verified on Aug. 10, 2022 when the New York Times reported that the…
