Climate Change Protests in Museums

From throwing soup at Van Gogh’s Sunflowers, to defacing Andy Warhol’s Soup Cans with graffiti, museums are becoming a hotspot of climate protests.

Museums and art galleries have been used as a platform of political protests for years. So, what is it about the art world that protesters find so appealing, and what have these protests done in the past?

Professor Kylie Message-Jones, director of the Humanities Research Centre at Australian National University, joins the show to find out.

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