Climate protest
Climate activists who dumped red powder on US Constitution at National Archives sentenced to prison
Donald Zepeda and Jackson Green were also involved in the paint attack on Degas’s ballerina and writing “Honor Them” on a wall last year at the National Gallery of Art
Art activists bill businesses for billions in environmental damages
Artists mount spoof invoice performance against Western Australia’s biggest carbon emitters
From the courts to the British Museum—it’s time to stop hiding from the realities of climate breakdown
A reluctance to acknowledge hard facts is playing into a one-sided narrative around Big Oil—and the consequences are far reaching
Climate protestors charged over Magna Carta attack in London
Members of Just Stop Oil tried to smash the case housing the historic document at the British Library
Prison sentence for climate activist who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas statue
In addition to spending 60 days in prison, Joanna Smith will have to serve 150 hours of community service, ten of which she must spend cleaning graffiti
Climate protesters who occupied London's Science Museum vow to continue disruptions
The group say the institution is allowing the Adani Group—which has ties to coal mining and arms manufacturing—to "greenwash" its reputation via sponsorship
Artists including Jeremy Deller, Es Devlin and Cornelia Parker form climate and social justice group with Brian Eno, Danny Boyle and others
The wide-ranging group, a kind of think tank for creative resistance, calls itself Hard Art
Two climate activists charged for pouring red powder on National Archives display of the US Constitution
The Valentine’s Day protest was carried out by members of the environmental group Declare Emergency
‘MoMA, dump Kravis’: activists call on museum to break up with board chair in Valentine’s Day protest
A coalition of environmental-justice organisations renewed their calls for the removal of board chair Marie-Josée Kravis
Protester charged for defacing African American Civil War memorial at US National Gallery of Art
A climate activist with the group Declare Emergency has been taken into custody over a paint-smearing incident at the museum last year
Mona Lisa undamaged after protesters at the Louvre throw soup at Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece
Members of Riposte Alimentaire demand the right to "healthy and sustainable food" after splattering pumpkin soup over the protective glazing in front of the world's most-viewed painting
Caught red-handed: climate activist pleads guilty to defacing Degas exhibit at National Gallery of Art
Joanna Smith faces a maximum sentence of five years in prison and up to a $250,000 fine
Climate activists stage protests at two famous New York museums
Activists with Extinction Rebellion staged protests inside the Guggenheim Museum and the American Museum of Natural History
Climate activists disrupt Christie's auction in New York
Two activists affiliiated with the group Extinction Rebellion took to the rostrum during a sale of works on paper
At London's Barbican, the female body's link to nature isn’t just lyrical—it's hardcore political
And a new show opens at the city's William Morris Gallery with a focus on radical landscapes
Climate activists attack Velázquez's ‘Rokeby Venus’ at the National Gallery in London
Two Just Stop Oil Activists targeted the work as a protest against new UK gas and oil licences, just over a century after the suffragette Mary Richardson attacked the same painting in 1914
Climate activists spray-paint Paris's Louvre pyramid
A member of the Dernière Rénovation group scaled the famous glass monument over the weekend
Climate protesters call for removal of MoMA’s board chair over ties to fossil fuel industry
After a protest in front of the museum’s main entrance, 16 activists were arrested after further actions inside the museum
Climate activist smears pink paint on Tom Thomson canvas at National Gallery of Canada
A man was arrested following the action, which was organised by the Canadian activist group On2Ottawa
Climate activists, protesting against federal charges against their colleagues, rally at the Metropolitan Museum
Joanna Smith and Tim Martin face up to five years in prison after smearing paint on the case and pedestal of a Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art
Monet painting attacked with red paint and glue in Stockholm is undamaged, Nationalmuseum says
The museum is in contact with the owner, Musée d’Orsay, about reinstalling Le jardin de l’artiste à Giverny in its exhibition
‘We charge you with ecocide’: climate protesters call for ouster of Museum of Modern Art board chair at gala
Activists urged the New York museum to distance itself from board chair Marie-Josée Kravis and her husband Henry Kravis due to their ties to the fossil fuel industry
Climate protestors who targeted US National Gallery of Art’s Degas sculpture face prison time
The two protesters have have been indicted by federal prosecutors on charges of conspiracy
Climate protestors attack Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
A man and a woman have daubed red and black paint on the display case containing 'Little Dancer'
Milan authorities must hire conservationist after struggling to clean statue damaged by climate activists
Italian officials have approved draft bill to bring in tougher sanctions for protestors who target heritage
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum closes on anniversary of infamous heist due to planned climate change protest
The museum was reportedly to be the site of a “guerrilla art installation” by Extinction Rebellion Boston on 18 March
In the wake of climate protests and pandemics, collectors are growing wary of loaning art to museums
Prospective lenders are increasingly nervous that their works will be targeted by attacks or be vulnerable to a lack of security during museum closures
The art of the obit: Adam McEwen on his hypothetical obituaries of living celebrities who are ‘guides to life’
The Art Newspaper’s obituaries editor speaks to the New York artist about how his journalistic training informs his tributes to figures like Greta Thunberg and Dolly Parton
Museums and heritage in 2022: industrial unrest, climate protests and damage to historic artefacts in Ukraine
New and refurbished museums open in Antwerp, Los Angeles and Sydney as Italian archaeologists make the "discovery of a generation" in a hilltop town in Tuscany
The Year in Art: We take a look at 2022’s biggest stories—and what they mean
Plus, our writers sit down to discuss their favourite works of the year