Art galleries are complicit in trashing our planet – but they don’t have to be
What should art galleries be doing? Here are five suggestions at the very least, writes Donnachadh McCarthy
There is no art on a dead planet. As I write, a number of climate-protectors from Just Stop Oil are on remand in a Manchester police cell for the high crime of gluing themselves to the frame of a painting in Manchester Art Gallery on Friday.
Their protest and similar protests that took place in Glasgow and London have a simple demand. They are asking that UK’s art galleries join the call on governments to stop investments by the banks and oil corporations in new oil, coal and gas fields, due to the climate crisis.
No damage was done to any of the paintings targeted by these young people.
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