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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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[–] [email protected] 35 points 5 months ago (2 children)

Probably the only type of destruction of art as protest I condone. The piece:

Is not very old or culturally/historically important
Directly depicts someone at the root of this conflict
Was deliberately targeted and the reasons layed out

About where I'm at. Normally I get immensely irritated by 'protesters' who go and vandalize unrelated and historically important artwork, but this isn't particularly objectionable.

[–] [email protected] 18 points 5 months ago (2 children)

I mean, correct me if I’m wrong, but this is the first story I’ve seen of protestors actually destroying the painting itself, they’re usually splashing paint on the protective cover, not on the painting itself. I’ve never seen one where the actual art was destroyed before now. Is that what you’re talking about? Or am I missing a bunch of stories where unrelated artwork was destroyed by protestors (usually climate protesters)?

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My youngest son tore up one of his brothers drawings because he had to get a bath first last night but it doesn’t seem to be reported on anywhere so I can’t fault you for not knowing about it.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago

These damn gen alphas and their civil disobedience

[–] [email protected] 1 points 5 months ago

Well they didn't need to bother protecting the portrait because it wasn't culturally relevant and no one would particularly care if it was accidentally damaged or aged.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

I so wanted to be annoyed yet again by annoying people, but …. Huh, the artwork they destroyed is relevant to their cause, as is destroying it. I’m still not ok with destruction as a form of protest, but there’s a reasonable line of logic

[–] [email protected] 3 points 5 months ago

Mood. I'm a curmudgeon and was looking forward at shaking my cane at some vandals, but here they are putting thought into things.