When it comes to acts of protest art, there is little to be gained by disrupting or vandalizing other works of art.
Yesterday, environmental activists vandalized Arturo Di Modica’s “Charging Bull” sculpture (1989) and disrupted a New York City Ballet performance.
Of the ballet disruption, The New York Times reported, “The climate advocacy group Extinction Rebellion, which has organized similar protests, said in a social media post Tuesday night that the demonstration was meant to highlight the Koch family’s support for conservative causes and efforts to block policies to fight climate change.”
Where did they get the idea that the arts are a “conservative cause?” That’s the same “elitist” point of view held by educationally oppressed MAGA.
“Our country has become a fascist regime, and we are enjoying this beauty,” a dancer performance protester cried out while “Greed=Death” was spraypainted onto the bull (those annoying fluorocarbons notwithstanding).
We always admire protest as a form of performance art and, unlike others, appreciate purposeful graffiti as an opportunity for visual art protest.
But vandalizing one art with another art does not drum up support. It only attracts media attention because that’s where we are with dumbed-down mainstream media. People will always click on pictures of violent acts.
You would think that Extinction Rebellion would prefer to gain influence and build widespread acceptance.
Not sure how you do that by splashing soup on a van Gogh.
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