In a bold move reminiscent of past protests, two students, Hanan Ameur and Harrison Donnelly, were arrested at London’s National Gallery. They had smashed the protective glass of “The Rokeby Venus,” a painting by Diego Velázquez. This wasn’t the first time the painting faced such an attack; in 1914, suffragette Mary Richardson also targeted it to protest the imprisonment of Emmeline Pankhurst. Ameur, 22, and Donnelly, 20, used safety hammers for the act, aiming to send a strong message about the urgency of stopping new oil and gas projects in the UK. Ameur said, “As a kid I saw myself … Continue reading Just Stop Oil’s Hammer Strike on Historic Venus Painting Echoes Suffragette Fury!