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Climate Activists Who Threw Soup at van Gogh Painting Are Changing Tactics

Just Stop Oil, the British environmental activist group known for attention-grabbing protests — including throwing tomato soup at famous artworks and spraying orange powder on Stonehenge — said it was ending such actions after a final protest in London next month. The group said on Thursday that it had achieved its primary goal of preventing

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London Van Gogh exhibition to stay open all night

The National Gallery’s Van Gogh exhibition is to stay open for 24 hours during its final weekend. Poets And Lovers has already become the third most popular paid exhibition in the London attraction’s history, with 283,499 visitors from its opening day on 14 September. It is the gallery’s first show devoted to Vincent Van Gogh,

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Protesters throw soup on Van Gogh paintings

Just Stop Oil supporters have thrown soup over two Vincent van Gogh paintings, hours after two activists were given jail sentences for targeting one of the same works of art. Three protesters threw an orange-coloured soup at Sunflowers 1888 and Sunflowers 1889 in the Poets and Lovers exhibition at the National Gallery in central London.

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Van Gogh National Gallery exhibition receives starry reviews

EPA A new Vincent Van Gogh exhibition at London’s National Gallery has received rave reviews from critics. The Guardian, The Telegraph, Time Out and The Times all sang the exhibition’s praises – with each critic awarding it five stars. The show opens on 14 September, and features more than 60 pieces painted by the Dutch

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Fire Breaks Out At London’s Somerset House, Home To Priceless Works By Van Gogh, Cezanne

Last Updated: August 17, 2024, 23:29 IST London, United Kingdom (UK) Staff and the public were safe and artworks were not in the area of the fire, a Somerset House official said. (Screengrab via X) Heavy smoke and flames seen coming from the top of the historic building around noon had been knocked down by

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