Well, they’ve gone and done it. Not content with chucking tins of soup over Van Gogh, the activists have taken it a step further and actually sprayed a canvas and slashed it. A Palestinian activist sprayed and slashed with a knife a portrait of Lord Balfour who was instrumental in setting up a Jewish state in Israel in the last century. The portrait was painted by an accomplished Hungarian Jewish artist called Philip de Lazlo. https://www.artforum.com/news/activist-damages-painting-of-lord-balfour-who-played-key-role-in-creation-israel-550588/
Yet again, art is in the news for all the wrong reasons and is being used to further the political aims of a small but not insignificant group of activists. They really have learned from their Masters Chairman Mao, Comrade Stalin and Chancellor Hitler.
March 2024.
Art history Unchained. 