‘Buckle up’: US backers of Just Stop Oil vow more Van Gogh-style protests

Climate Emergency Fund lauds National Portrait Gallery stunt and pledges to keep fighting against mass delusion of normalcy'

The US funders of a climate activist group that poured tomato soup over Van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London have vowed similar attention-grabbing stunts will take place in various countries in the weeks ahead.

On Friday, two young activists from the Just Stop Oil group entered the gallery, opened two tins of Heinz tomato soup and hurled them over the painting, which is protected by a pane of glass. As onlookers exclaimed Oh my gosh!", the activists glued themselves to the wall beneath the painting.