Climate Protesters Target Degas Sculpture at National Gallery of Art

Photo caption: Climate activists Tim Martin and Joanna Smith during their action the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. Photo courtesy of Declare Emergency via Twitter. Article by Hakim Bishara. Hyperallergic – April 27, 2023.

Just when you thought they were gone, climate activists are back, this time targeting an Edgar Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC. It happened around 11am this morning, April 27, when two activists dressed in black suits smeared the plexiglass case and wooden pedestal of Degas’s wax sculpture “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen” (1878–1881) with blood-red and petrol-black paint. […]

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