A climate activist who smeared paint on a case surrounding 19th-century French artist Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art was sentenced Friday. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, New York, got 60 days of prison
A climate activist who allegedly smeared paint on a case surrounding 19th century French artist Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” sculpture at Washington, D.C.’s National Gallery of Art was charged. Joanna Smith, 54, of Brooklyn, N.Y., got 60 days of prison
The National Portrait Gallery has been slammed after it wrongly claimed an art dealer launched his career using money from slavery. The gallery said Edward Fox White launched his career from a compensation payout his father-in-law received for freeing slaves. It said
A man died on Friday after falling from the Tate Modern art gallery in London, a popular tourist spot. Metropolitan Police and ambulance crews responded to the incident, but the man was pronounced dead at the scene. Tate Modern announced the closure
A man has died after falling from the Tate Modern gallery in London, the Metropolitan Police said. In a statement, the Metropolitan Police said: “Police were called at 10.45am to reports of a man fallen from the Tate Modern on Bankside, SE1.
Two climate activists hurled soup over the priceless Mona Lisa at the Louvre museum in Paris. Pictures from the scenes show the painting, the frame and the wall splattered with an orange liquid. Leonardo da Vinci’s masterpiece, believed to be one of
TALLINN, Estonia (AP) — Thousands of artworks were destroyed in a fire that swept through the main art gallery in Abkhazia, reports said, a severe blow to the cultural heritage of the separatist Georgian region. The blaze swept through the Central Exhibition
The Metropolitan Police have made two arrests after members of an eco-mob stormed a gallery and smashed protective glass sheilding a painting. Just Stop Oil filmed two individuals as they walked into London’s National Gallery this morning, and cracked the glass which
Members of the public have been left horrified after a group of masked men appeared in the public gallery of a murder trial in Northern Ireland. The group appeared at a trial over the killing of Eamon Fox and Gary Convie in
A video captured the moment two climate protesters defaced a portrait of King Charles III at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh, Scotland, before gluing their hands to the floor. The footage emerged as the group they are involved with, called