This year has been marked by a rising number of politically-motivated attacks on art. But we should not forget the power of ...

Just Stop Oil said the glass of the Rokeby Venus painting was smashed with safety hammers Two Just Stop Oil protesters have been arrested after glass protecting the Rokeby Venus painting at the ...

I have joined in the war.” Earlier in 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson smuggled a meat cleaver into the National Gallery and slashed the Rokeby Venus, a painting by Diego Velázquez.

The leaders of the UK's national collections and major regional museums highlight the "enormous stress for colleagues at every level of an organisation" and "visitors who now no longer feel safe ...

Westminster Magistrates' Court heard it will cost more than £6,000 to repair damage caused to the painting Two Just Stop Oil protesters have denied damaging glass protecting the Rokeby Venus ...

"Sunset at Montmajour" by Vincent van Gogh was discovered in the attic of Norwegian industrialist Christian Nicolai Mustad after his death in 1970. "The Rokeby Venus" is a painting by Diego ...

Most famously, suffragette and arsonist Mary Richardson slashed Velazquez's famous Rokeby Venus (c. 1647-1651) as it hung in the National Gallery on March 10, 1914. Slicing up oil paintings was ...

The museum cited several attacks on artwork since July 2022, including on John Constable's The Hay Wain and Velazquez's ...