The Soup-y Night
By Julia Kemp
In mid-October of 2021, an out-of-the-box protest at London’s National Gallery of Art made headlines and went viral on social media. Climate activist Phoebe Plummer, along with the group Just Stop Oil, threw a can of tomato soup on Van Gogh’s infamous painting, Sunflowers. Plummer, a 21-year-old UK student, claims that they committed such an unusual and bizarre form of protest “to grab people’s attention—it hasn’t been done before, and it was something new.”
