The public and performative destruction of art seems to be having a bit of a moment. In the last three weeks alone, Just Stop Oil protesters have thrown tins of tomato soup over a Van Gogh painting in London (albeit a glass-covered one); a separate group of climate activists has hurled mashed potato at a Monet in Potsdam; and artist Damien Hirst has burnt hundreds of his own artworks after buyers chose to hold them virtually as NFTs instead. So in vogue does this trend seem to be, in fact, that Britain’s Channel 4 last week aired a programme called Jimmy Carr Destroys Art, which it described as a “unique TV experiment where the audience decides whether to cancel controversial artists and offensive artworks”, hosted by a comedian who himself is no stranger to controversy.
對藝術的公開表演性的破壞現在似乎有點火。僅在過去三周里，就發生了“停止石油”(Just Stop Oil)運動的抗議者在倫敦向梵高(Van Gogh)的一幅畫作——盡管畫上罩著玻璃——扔了幾罐番茄湯；另一群氣候活動人士在波茨坦向莫奈(Monet)的一幅畫投擲土豆泥；以及藝術家達米恩?赫斯特(Damien Hirst)燒毀了他自己的數百件藝術作品，因為有買家選擇把它們作為非同質化代幣(NFT)以虛擬形式收藏。