On Oct. 23, 2022 four members of the German eco-extremist group Letzte Generation (Last Generation), entered the Museum Barberini in Potsdam, Germany and attacked a famous painting by French Impressionist Claude Monet (1840-1926). The four entered the room where Monet’s 1890 oil painting Les Meules (Haystacks) was hanging on display. Two members of the group wore bright orange safety vests;…
Great Britain’s Channel 4 announced it will premier a new television show in late Oct. 2022 called Art Trouble. Before airing, the show’s title was revised to Jimmy Carr Destroys Art. The entertainment show will let its audience decide which artwork from a “problematic” artist like Pablo Picasso or Adolf Hitler will be destroyed by comedian Jimmy Carr, the host…
On Oct 14, 2022, two young women from the eco-extremist organization “Just Stop Oil” entered London’s National Gallery in Trafalgar Square. The duo wore coats to hide their matching black and white T-shirts reading Just Stop Oil. Their plan was to attack Sunflowers, the famous painting by Vincent Van Gogh. When they entered Room 43 where Sunflowers is displayed, the…
On Oct. 9, 2022, three extremists from Extinction Rebellion assailed a Picasso painting on display at the National Gallery of Victoria in Melbourne, Australia. It was the last day of the museum’s exhibit The Picasso Century, which ran from June 10, 2022 to Oct. 9, 2022. The show featured 80 works by Picasso and 100 artworks from contemporaries like Henri…
A faction of the environmentalist movement has developed new plans for combating climate change. They’ve decided that disrupting art institutions with acts of “civil resistance” is a path to a sustainable future. The actions these “activists” engage in consists of spray-painting anti-oil graffiti on museum property and gluing themselves to the frames of masterpiece oil paintings. Few things describe cultural…
Long ago I visited the Musée du Louvre in Paris, France. I spent the day walking its many rooms, studying with my artist’s eyes its astonishing art treasures. One such gem was the Mona Lisa, Leonardo da Vinci’s 16th century oil painting masterpiece. Her smile still beckons; currently some 30,000 people per day visit her Louvre exhibition room to gaze…
On Nov. 3, 2021 the New York Times published Can We Separate the Art From the Artist?, an opinion piece by their regular columnist Jennifer Finney Boylan. It compared classic rock performers like Elvis Presley and Jerry Lee Lewis to the statues of Confederate generals, implying it was time to topple classic rockers for their politically incorrect behavior. Boylan put…
New York’s Democrat Mayor de Blasio and his allies finally succeeded in removing the bronze statue of Thomas Jefferson that stood in the legislative chamber of the New York City Council for more than 100 years. On October 18, 2021, the mayor’s Public Design Commission voted unanimously to take down the statue. I view the censorious act as an open…
