Vandals of Civilization: Why Climate Activists Attack Our Cultural Heritage
Defacing works of art functions as a siren shriek — and an assertion of the importance of the protesters themselves I still remember really seeing John Constable’s painting The Hay Wain for the first time. After many years of viewing it through the veil of a screen or a book, I was at last standing in front of the painting itself at the National Gallery in London. In person, the details come alive. Constable renders the particulars of the 19th-century British countryside...
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