Artist Ahmet Öğüt called on the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam to stop showing his installation Bakunin’s Barricade (2015–20), claiming that the institution had failed to allow the work to be used during a protest over Israel’s military action in Gaza. The Art Newspaper first reported the news. Öğüt’s piece, which was acquired by the museum in 2020, is a barricade-like structure roughly the size of a small gallery space that was assembled from wrecked car, fencing, and other materials. Öğüt constructed it based on ideas circulated by the Russian dissident Mikhail Bakunin, who, during the 1849 Dresden uprising in Germany, called for the use of valuable paintings as shields on barricades, believing they would deter soldiers who would be afraid to destroy artworks. Related Articles When Bakunin’s Barricade has been shown in other venues, the wall text accompanying the piece has mentioned that it can be requested for usage in protests. “A loan contact, prepared in collaboration with a lawyer, stipulates that the barricade may be requested and deployed during extreme economic, social, political, transformative …