One person argues, *If you don't like climate activists staging art gallery protests, organize something better.*

I think it is wrong to damage art as a protest. To make a statement, there is no need to damage things at random.

However, it turns out that Van Gogh's painting, Sunflowers, was in no danger of being harmed by the soup that protesters threw at it. It is protected behind a piece of plastic. I suppose they knew this. So there was no objective harm in protesting that way, no objective reason why they should not.

Still, that method may still have been self-defeating, influencing people such as me who did not know how the painting is protected.