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Two activists arrested after Rokeby Venus artwork targeted, as dozens of others held after blocking Whitehall

Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after smashing the glass covering a Diego Velázquez painting at the National Gallery in London, as police detained dozens of others who blocked Whitehall.

Two activists targeted the glass on the Rokeby Venus painting with safety hammers before they were arrested on suspicion of criminal damage.

The artwork, which was painted by Velázquez in the 1600s, was slashed by the suffragette Mary Richardson in 1914. One of those involved on Monday said: “Women did not get the vote by voting; it is time for deeds not words.”

The Metropolitan police said at least 40 activists who were “slow marching” in Whitehall were also detained and that the road was clear after traffic was stopped for a brief period

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[–] nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 points 10 months ago (4 children)

Dudes be like nooo stop trying to hurt the nice paper and go protest somewhere else so we can more easily ignore you

Putting the protection of art above what these people are protesting is both hilarious and also extremely depressing

[–] Deceptichum@kbin.social 25 points 10 months ago (4 children)

But this is very easy to ignore, a bougie art gallery?

Go slash a ceos neck or something if you’re going to go to gaol anyway.

[–] photonic_sorcerer@lemmy.dbzer0.com 10 points 10 months ago (2 children)

This gets just as much attention for much less jail time.

[–] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

This gets almost zero lasting attention. CEOs start dropping like flies at the hands of angry citizens? Yeah, that's going to make a bigger difference.

[–] STRIKINGdebate2@lemmy.world 8 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We could be seeing this soon tbh. Not that encourage it.

[–] Grimy@lemmy.world 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)
[–] Ragdoll_X@lemmy.world 3 points 10 months ago

For legal reasons I encourage it in Roblox.

[–] TheMauveAvenger@lemmy.world 6 points 10 months ago

A lot of these goons are paid by oil to make environmentalists look bad, and they do a good job at it. Even if they are real, they are so pathetic that they wouldn't dare to do anything that would have an actual effect on the world like you said.

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world -1 points 10 months ago

That's senseless violence which doesn't accomplish anything... CEOs are easier to replace than a painting.

[–] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 12 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Great job comprehending what you're reading.

It's a million times more depressing that the majority of environmentalist-minded people apparently see these publicity stunts as positive.

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 points 10 months ago (3 children)

The arts are like one of the first things to go if shit will start to go down due to climate change

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world 7 points 10 months ago

There is this specific absolutely beautiful instrument at the Musical Instrument Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. It was made out of trash by people in abject poverty. The arts might change, but it's pretty damn hard to extinguish that creative spark people have.

[–] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Yeah, because art clearly hasn't existed when there's strife, crises or people are poor or suffering :D

[–] SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

We are talking about a painting from an artist in the court of a Spanish monarch from hundreds of years ago, a type of art that museums strive to maintain via expensive means. We are not talking about more ephemeral art that doesn't get maintained, and is eventually lost to time anyway.

Maintaining of art like this would absolutely be one of the first things to go. There is already often talks about defunding the arts even in peaceful times. Look at "went to an art school" being often thrown around as a joke about being useless even in decent times.

[–] brewbellyblueberry@sopuli.xyz 1 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

You can talk circles around justifying this idiocy, it's not going to make this clout chasing vandalism stunt any more clever. If justifying some kind of funding is what you want to talk about you're free to do so, funding has never been something that stops art from existing, but that discussion is absolutely irrelevant to this thing. Besides, "the arts are one of the first things to go" isn't talking about this one piece, it's very general and you know it.

[–] ShitOnABrick@lemmy.world 2 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago) (1 children)

Said "paper" has a shit ton of historical significance. art can define our culture alter our history and change our perception on things. Art like comedy or forms of media is also subjective what you may find rubbish another person may enjoy. And in my upmost opinion this isn't protesting this is vandalism. I think it's important that we must not forget history so we can learn from it and not repeat the mistakes of the past. and a large part of not forgetting history is restoring and maintaining pieces of art such as this......... not vandalising it for a vague and nonsensical environmental message people like this and also people like you muddy the water for true discussion and debate on the environment and other topics relating to it

[–] nautilus@lemmy.dbzer0.com 0 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The fact that you see vandalism and protest as mutually exclusive is really odd. Reminds me of the liberal types who claim they’re all for protesting and yet draw the line at anything past marching or petitioning maybe.

Super great deflection technique by the big oil guys by the way - everyone’s arguing over art in a museum rather than holding them accountable

[–] jarfil@lemmy.world 0 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

These people are protesting the loss of the status quo of unchecked rampant overpopulation.

There were 500 million people when that paper was made... 2 billion when the sufragettes slashed it... there are 8 billion now, and how exactly has that improved things?

Do we really want to see what 32 billion people will do to the environment?