Another masterpiece has been defaced all in the name of Mother Earth—but is it worth it?
Two weeks ago, two members of the student-led group Last Generation threw black dye over the Death and Life masterpiece of Gustav Klimt at Vienna’s Leopold Museum, before one of them glued themselves to the glass protecting the painting. Sounds familiar?
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To jog your memory, the act which has been counted as vandalism has been committed by Just Stop Oil members last October, making headlines across the globe for throwing tin cans of Heinz tomato soup at Van Gogh's Sunflowers and glueing their hands to the museum wall, eliciting gasps from the guests at the National Gallery in London.
Earlier this year, a man disguised as an old woman in a wheelchair smeared cake at Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa at the Louvre Museum. Fortunately, the masterpiece was protected by glass. At the time, authorities predicted it would be the first of many, and they were right.
The impetus of this series of acts remains the same: climate change awareness.
