Historic Portrait of Lord Balfour Slashed by Pro-Palestine Protestors
news.artnet.com
A painting of Lord Balfour housed at the University of Cambridge’s Trinity College was slashed by protest group Palestine Action.
The painting of Lord Balfour was made in 1914 by Philip Alexius de László inside Trinity College. The Palestine Action group specifically targeted the Lord Balfour painting, describing his declaration as the beginning of “ethnic cleansing of Palestine by promising the land away—which the British never had the right to do.”
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Look, you wanna protest and shit? Go ahead, but if you start vandalizing art in museums you instantly lose my sympathy.
If all it takes for you to lose sympathy is damaging some art of a coloniser, they didn't have your sympathy to begin with.
This is like taking down Confederate statues.
Why y'all worshipping assholes?
Not really the same. The public gets a say in which art pieces are displayed in public. Museums exist for the preservation of history, good or bad.
This is Britain mate, and the riff-raff have almost no say in such things.
Apparently you didn't read the article, the guy had a direct role in the destruction of Palestine
That’s not how the word “direct” works.
Ugh. You insufferable robots moved over here from Reddit? At least you’re being downvoted.
It was in a college, not a museum.
Paintings and statues in public places is a fair game imo.
Sure. But I still think the destruction of art is destruction of history, regardless of how someone feels about it. If you don't like it in public, then it's better to take it down and store it somewhere else for preservation purposes if nothing else.
This guy's paintings have about as much historical value as Hitler pictures and confederate general statues.
Which is to say a lot?