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It’s a Frame-Up: Old Masters Come Under Assault in Climate Protests

Works by da Vinci, Van Gogh, Constable, and Turner have in recent weeks been targeted in an effort to conscript culture to the climate cause.

Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP
Protesters with hands glued to the frame of John Constable's ‘The Hay Wain’ at the National Gallery, London, July 4, 2022. Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP
A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

The fight for the climate apparently now encompasses a war against art, as masterpieces are being targeted by activists intent on using galleries and museums as staging grounds for protests. Silent sentinels of the past are now being conscripted into a pitched battle for the planetary future. 

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A.R. HOFFMAN
A.R. HOFFMAN

Mr. Hoffman is an associate editor of the Sun, where he covers politics and culture. He holds a PhD from Harvard and a law degree from Stanford.

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