07/29/2024

Activists Who Attempted to Deface Van Gogh Painting Receive Prison Time

The activists were members of Just Stop Oil

Two activists from the protest group Just Stop Oil have been found guilty of criminal damage after throwing tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh‘s Sunflowers.

On Oct. 14, 2022, Phoebe Plummer and Anna Holland threw soup at the painting, housed at the at the National Gallery of Art in London, before super-glueing their hands to the nearby wall.

BBC News reported that Judge Christopher Hehir told Plummer and Holland they "came within the width of a pane of glass of destroying one of the most valuable artworks in the world" and to be "prepared in practical and emotional terms to go to prison" at Southwark Crown Court.

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