Art Industry News is a daily digest of the most consequential developments coming out of the art world and art market. Here’s what you need to know on this Wednesday, July 6.The new eco-activist trend of gluing your hand to famous paintings is spreading like, erm, wildfire. Here’s the latest:
Just Stop Oil coalition members have glued themselves to a 500-year-old rendition of Leonardo da Vinci’sat London’s Royal Academy. It is the fifth time in a week that the glue protests have taken over a U.K. art institution.In today’s edition of “politicians meddling in curators’ affairs,” the Liberal Democrat councillor Nigel Porter has expressed his dismay that Francis Bacon’swas taken off view at the Leicester Museum and Art Gallery and put into storage.