Just Stop Oil Campaigners Stick To Turner Painting Frame In Manchester Environmental Activism
It is the third time this week that supporters of the group, which is calling for a government-imposed moratorium on new oil and gas extraction projects, have stuck to major projects in UK galleries. On Thursday they taped themselves to the frame of a Vincent Van Gogh painting at the Courtauld Gallery in London. On Wednesday they did the same at an artwork by Horatio McCulloch in Glasgow. “The young people of the world have literally nothing to lose anymore, we’re a generation that sacrifices,” said Paul Bell, a 21-year-old physics graduate from Birmingham, one of two who strapped themselves to the frame of Thomson’s Wind Harp....