James Baldwin

Year-round Festival Series 16  – International Museum Day – Throwing Tomato Juice at an Artwork?   Life is more important than art! So that’s why art is important. -James Baldwin, American author   Since May 2022, many of the more radical social movement environmental groups, such as Stop Oil in the UK and The Last Generation in Germany and Italy, have launched restrained attacks on world-famous artworks in museums across Europe, such as throwing tomato juice and mashed potatoes on the protective glass of artworks, in order to raise public awareness of the problem of new oil extraction and the […]