Art & Terror

"Welcome to the 'Art & Terror Weekly Newsletter,' your comprehensive review of the week's events at the intersection of arts and politics. This week saw notable acts of  vandalism  on both sides of the Atlantic making headlines. In London, animal rights activists targeted  Jonathan Yeo's controversial portrait of King Charles III  at the Philip Mould Gallery, affixing Wallace and Gromit stickers in protest against alleged animal cruelty linked to RSPCA farms. This sparked a debate over the monarch's associations with the group.( The Telegraph ,  Hyperallergic ,  CNN ) Meanwhile, in New York, the home of  Brooklyn Museum director Anne Pasternak  was vandalized with red paint, accusing her and the museum of being "white supremacist Zionists" and funding genocide. This act, condemned as anti-Semitic and criminal, prompted a New York police investigation and widespread public denunciation ( ArtNews ,  TAN ), and some justifications as a res...