Just Stop Oil Protesters Charged Over Defacing Darwin’s Grave
Two environmental activists who sprayed chalk paint on Charles Darwin’s grave in Westminster Abbey, London…
14 January 2025
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Third Activist Charged Over Orange Powder Protest at Stonehenge
A third person has been charged in relation to a June protest at Stonehenge, during which the ancient monument was sprayed with orange powder….
21 November 2024
Tracey Emin Joins 20th Century Society Protesting Changes To Margate’s Brutalist Landmark
The Margate-born artist Dame Tracey Emin is teaming up with residents and the 20th Century Society to oppose plans to replace the original windows of Arlington House…
17 November 2024
Stop Protests Targeting Artworks Says National Museum Directors’ Council
UK museum directors have written an open letter calling for an end to protests which target galleries and artworks. The demonstrations
12 October 2024
Art Protesters Deface Gustave Courbet’s Origin of the World At Centre Pompidou-Metz
Art Activists in Paris have defaced Gustave Courbet’s “The Origin of the World” (1866). The painting was at the centre of controversy yesterday at the Centre Pompidou-Metz.
7 May 2024
Acts Of Resistance: Photography, Feminisms And The Art Of Protest
This group exhibition at the SLG, organised in collaboration with the V&A, spans the Main Gallery and the Fire Station and brings together works by international artists and collectives using the camera to challenge and move beyond traditional protest photography.
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Mona Lisa Attacked With Soupe de Tomate By Protesters In Paris
In a mindless act of protest, demonstrators hurled tomato soup at the iconic Mona Lisa by Leonard de Vinci. The masterpiece was encased behind protective glass
28 January 2024
Protester Attacks Eric Gill Statue At BBC Broadcasting House
A protester armed with a hammer has scaled BBC Broadcasting House near Oxford Circus and destroyed a sculpture by Eric Gill
12 January 2022
Pussy Riot Protests Putin’s Palace – Swiss Authorities Drop Dmitry Rybolovlev Case – Giuseppe Penone Donates 200 More Works
Pussy Riot Protests Putin’s Palace – Swiss Authorities Drop Dmitry Rybolovlev Case – Giuseppe Penone Donates 200 More Works
28 January 2021
Fatos Üstek Quits Directorship of Liverpool Biennial – Society of Antiquaries Priced Out Of Mayfair – Xora’s Sleeping Protest Aimed At JK Rowling
Fatos Üstek Quits Directorship of Liverpool Biennial – Society of Antiquaries Priced Out Of Mayfair – Xora’s Sleeping Protest Aimed At JK Rowling
24 November 2020
Marc Quinn Replaces Statue Of Edward Colston With BLM Protester
The YBA artist Artist Marc Quinn who was responsible for iconic contemporary statues such as ‘Self’ (Blood Head) and Alison Lapper Pregnant which appeared on London’s Fourth Plinth and Bristol resident Jen Reid unveil a new temporary, public installation, A Surge of Power (Jen Reid) 2020, on top of Edward Colston’s empty plinth in Bristol, England.
15 July 2020
Protesters Tear Down Statue To Slave Trader In Bristol
A notorious statue dedicated to a slave trader in Bristol has been torn down and thrown into the harbour during a second day of anti-racism protests across the UK. Following a peaceful demonstration in Bristol
7 June 2020
Louvre Removes Sackler Name From Galleries After PAIN Protest
Musée du Louvre has removed or taped over all references to the Sackler Family in response to protests from organisations including Nan Goldin’s PAIN (Prescription Addiction Intervention Now group.
17 July 2019
Spencer Tunick Nude Protest Challenges Facebook Censorship Rules
About 100 people stripped naked in front of Facebook’s New York offices as part of a censorship protest against Facebook and Instagram’s policies
4 June 2019
Ken Currie: Protest Defeat And Victory – Revd Jonathan Evens
Violence is to be found everywhere and at all times, even where people pretend that it does not exist. That is the argument made by Jacques Ellul, French philosopher, sociologist, lay theologian, professor, and noted Christian anarchist.
3 March 2019
Protest and Remembrance
Protest and Remembrance brings together four artists, Miriam de Búrca, Joy Gerrard, Mary Griffiths and Barbara Walker, who use drawing to examine elements of protest and/or remembrance through a range of subjects that include war, political demonstration, burial sites and lost industry, set in both the urban and the rural, past and present.
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Nan Goldin Takes Over The Guggenheim To Protest Sackler Donations
Nan Goldin the photographer and anti-opioid activist, brought her campaign to the Guggenheim, New York yesterday with a Saturday night protest.
10 February 2019
McJesus Sculpture Sparks Protest At Haifa Museum
Several hundred fundamentalist Christians have staged a protest outside the Haifa Museum of Art in Israel demanding the removal of ‘McJesus’ a sculpture of a crucified Ronald MacDonald by Finnish artist Jani Leinonen.
14 January 2019
Collective Protest Turner Prize Nominee Luke Willis Thompson At Tate
A group calling themselves BBZ London have protested at Tate Britain in response to the Turner Prize nomination of Luke Willis Thompson.
26 September 2018
Artists Pull Work From Design Museum Exhibition Protesting Arms Dealer Event
Several artists have pulled their work from the current group exhibition at the Design Museum in Kensington, London. The move was in protest to the Museum allowing arms dealers to host an event at the space, the former home of the Commonwealth Institute.
3 August 2018
Britain’s Leading Artists Protest Against The Decline Of Art In Schools
Over 100 artists, including Tracey Emin, Jeremy Deller, Antony Gormley, Lubaina Himid, Anish Kapoor, Grayson Perry, Sam Taylor Johnson, Mark Wallinger and Rachel Whiteread, have written to The Guardian to protest against the decline of art in schools.
8 May 2018
1968 Political Protest Posters To Be Displayed At Tate Britain
1968 was a turning point for protest history and a flashpoint in modern society.
8 May 2018
Nan Goldin Holds Sackler OxyContin Protest At Met Egyptian Temple
The photographer Nan Goldin and a crowd of 100 demonstrators were out en masse protesting at the Egyptian temple located at the Metropolitan Museum in NY.
12 March 2018
ARCOmadrid 2018: Bans Catalan Protest Exhibit – Welcome To The Future
ARCOmadrid 2018 a leading international art fair, which uses the unfortunate tagline, ‘welcome to the future’, has banned an exhibit which features photographs of jailed Catalan politicians.
22 February 2018
Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina Detained In Siberia For Oleg Sentsov Protest
Members of the art-punk band Pussy Riot were detained by Police in Siberia on Monday after they staging a protest in support of the jailed Ukrainian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov,
8 August 2017
Shia LaBeouf Protest Performance Piece Museum Pulls The Plug
Actor Shia LaBeouf’s protest performance piece conceived along with London-based artists Luke Turner and Nastja Ronkko has been shut down. The Museum Museum of the Moving Image in New York which gave permission for the artwork to be realised live has pulled the plug due to a number of violent incidents which let to the arrest of Mr. LaBeouf’s arrest on 26th January.
12 February 2017
Anish Kapoor Appropriates Joseph Beuys Art To Protest Trump
The Turner Prize-winning artist Sir Anish Kapoor has reworked Joseph Beuys’ seminal work, I Like America and America Likes Me… Read More
1 February 2017
Christo Pulls Out Of River Project To Protest Trump Administration
The artist Christo has pulled out of his ‘Over The River’ project in protest to the Presidency of Donald Trump.
26 January 2017
Shia LaBeouf Unveils Four-Year Trump Protest Performance Piece
Beginning on the morning of Trump’s inauguration at 9 am on January 20, 2017, Shia LaBeouf commenced his most ambitious performance piece. Titled, “HE WILL NOT DIVIDE US.”
23 January 2017
Shepard Fairey Saturates Washington With We The People Protest Posters
The iconic street artist Shepard Fairey has released a new series of posters titled, ‘We the People’ Series to Protest the election of Donald Trump as the 45th President of the United States of America.
21 January 2017
Ai Weiwei Shuts Danish Exhibition To Protest New Asylum Seekers Laws
Ai Weiwei, the Chinese dissident artist has shut down an exhibition in Denmark in protest of plans by the Danish Government to… Read More
28 January 2016
America in Revolt: The Art Of Protest New Exhibition Focuses On Vietnam War Era
America in Revolt: The Art Of Protest is a new London exhibition of original posters and artwork created by students and… Read More
25 January 2016