Another activist who participated in the protest, Joanna Smith, pleaded guilty in December 2023 to one count of causing injury to a National Gallery of Art exhibit ... on the wall next to the ...

Up Against the Wall: Art, Activism, and the AIDS Poster offers nearly 200 examples of visually arresting and socially meaningful posters, taken from more than 8,000 held in the collection in the ...

“Street art, in contrast to a piece of art in the Louvre, doesn’t belong to anyone,” Dovhyi told the New York Times. The activist argued that the Ukrainian army’s need for wartime resour ...

Smith is part of a growing climate activist movement whose ... by marking the glass protecting art pieces and attaching themselves to the frame or wall surrounding them. Each time, their message ...

In March 2018, activists unfurled banners and scattered pill bottles (labeled "OxyContin" and "prescribed to you by the Sacklers") inside the Sackler wing of the Metropolitan Museum of Art ...

After all, activists reason, what’s will the value of art be in the future if you can ... The glass itself, and the surrounding wall and floor, were not so lucky. Police took both people ...

When artist-activists and community and labor organizers ... is largely removed from the circumstances that ignite social change. Take Occupy Wall Street and the Movement for Black Lives, where art ...

Then, in 2023, the Biden administration began tearing down the wall to build a taller one. All of a sudden, this living being was dying. Fernandez saw the art being destroyed, and along with it an ...

“What is worth more, art or life?” one of the activists shouted at the National Gallery in London. “Are you more concerned about the protection of a painting or the protection of our planet?