A well-known Andy Warhol exhibit on Wednesday turned the newest masterpiece to be victimized by protesters making an attempt to color an image about local weather change.
One of the 2 demonstrators yelled “we’re in a climate emergency” as they lined Warhol’s Campbell’s soup can show with graffiti and glued themselves to it on the National Gallery of Australia.
“While Australians starve, government pays $22,000 a minute to subsidize fossil fuels,” reads a tweet by the group Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies, which shared a video of the protest.
No arrests have been made in reference to the incident, in line with police, however the protesters, who’re each ladies, have been faraway from the museum in Canberra.
The 36-year-old “Campbell’s Soup I” piece, which Warhol made in New York, is protected by glass and didn’t seem to broken by the graffiti, which the demonstrators utilized to 5 prints.
The museum “does not wish to promote these actions and has no further comment,” the National Gallery of Australia stated Wednesday.
Last month, protesters from totally different local weather teams pelted Vincent van Gogh’s “Sunflowers” with tomato soup at London’s National Gallery and hurled mashed potatoes at Claude Monet’s “Les Meules” on the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, Germany.
Neither of these work have been broken, as each have been enclosed in glass as nicely.
With News Wire Services
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