Performance Art or Wanton Destruction of Property?

On Monday, July 4, two people from a group calling itself Just Stop Oil went into the National Gallery in London and glued themselves to the frame of John Constable’s The Hay Wain. They also covered the painting with a modified version, showing the same bucolic landscape but with planes passing over a sullied sky. According to CNN, this was the third such “protest” engaged in by the group in recent weeks. “New fossil fuels are a death project by our government,” one of them said. “So yes there is glue on the frame of this painting, but there is blood on the hands of our government.”