TTACKS on works of art are nothing new, but that last week on (1647–51) by Velázquez, familiarly known as the ‘The Rokeby Venus’, was the third assault on a painting in the National Gallery in little over a year by the same group (1821). Then came a can of tomato soup thrown at van Gogh’s (1888). Now we have the spectacle of two protesters smashing the glass of this 17th-century Spanish painting with hammers before shouting a statement.
The trashing of Venus
Nov 15, 2023
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