Just Stop Oil protesters cling to Royal Academy’s Last Supper

Climate activists have stuck to the frame of a copy of Leonardo da Vinci The last dinner at the Royal Academy.

Just Stop Oil activists said today’s action was “the fifth time in the last week that Just Stop Oil supporters have disrupted a major art institution in an act of civil resistance.”

It comes a day after protesters clung to the framework of The hay cartby John Constable, at the National Gallery and superimposed the painting with a dystopian “reimagined” view of the scene.

Protesters stick their hands in the artwork

Just Stop Oil wants ministers to commit to stopping new oil and gas licenses in the UK and for directors, employees and members of arts institutions to join their cause.

The group said that “supporters

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