The rapper weighs into the debate around throwing food at art in the name of the climate crisis
In recent weeks, activists have hurled tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh’s Sunflowers (1888) at London’s National Gallery, and hurled mashed potatoes at Monet’s Les Meules (1890) at Potsdam’s Museum Barberini, all in the name of drawing attention to the climate crisis.
Their actions have triggered a debate around the lengths to which people might go to protest government inaction on climate change, and the role of art within this.
‘I will avenge u mr van gogh,’ rapper Lil Nas X wrote on Twitter, in his own illustrated contribution to the discourse:
