Throwing soup at a Van Gogh won’t save the planet

When climate activists to the frame of a 16th-century copy of “The Last Supper” at London’s Royal Academy of Arts in July, they received a fairly sympathetic hearing. “No painting is worth more than my six-month-old nephew’s life,” said a 21-year-old protester, denouncing the British government’s support of the fossil fuel industry amid the urgent climate crisis. But when — as protesters threw tomato soup at Van Gogh’s... + full article