The Hay Wain vandals banned from possessing glue or tape in public

Two climate change protestors who glued themselves to the frame of John Constable’s masterpiece The Hay Wain have appeared in court. Hannah Hunt, 23, and Eben Lazarus, 22, staged the protest at the National Gallery as part of the Just Stop Oil campaign. The pair were held on July 4 after allegedly sticking large sheets of paper over the 1821 Suffolk landscape of what activists called ‘an apocalyptic vision of the future’. The image featured scenes of scorched trees, polluted…

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