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Climate Activists Dye Famous Roman Fountain Water Black

by Rhea Nayyar April 3, 2023April 3, 2023

Activists said fountains are symbolic “of the refreshment offered by the water and, on the other, of the danger it can represent.”

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Klimt Gets Splashed With “Oil” in Latest Climate Protest

by Rhea Nayyar November 15, 2022November 16, 2022

The artist’s “Death and Life” painting got splashed with an oily black liquid at the Leopold Museum in Vienna.

Posted inOpinion

Museum Directors, Do You Need a Hug?

by Hakim Bishara November 11, 2022November 11, 2022

Prominent museum directors declaring that they are “deeply shaken” by climate activists is a resounding failure of leadership.

Posted inOpinion

The Van Gogh Is Fine; You Won’t Be

Avatar photo by Rebecca Zorach October 19, 2022October 20, 2022

The real target of Just Stop Oil’s tomato soup action wasn’t Van Gogh’s painting. It was our complacency.

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Climate Protesters Glue Themselves to Vatican Masterpiece

Avatar photo by Jasmine Liu August 18, 2022August 18, 2022

Two activists from the group Ultima Generazione glued their hands to the base of the ancient Roman statue “Laocoön and His Sons,” dubbed as a “prototypical icon of human agony.”

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A Documentary Portrait of Environmentalist Greta Thunberg

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel November 12, 2020November 12, 2020

I Am Greta captures some sobering truths about the nature of contemporary activism.

Posted inIn Brief

Extinction Rebellion Sends a Sinking Home Along the River Thames, Warning of Climate Disaster

by Sarah Rose Sharp November 13, 2019

The work was intended as a public appeal to politicians to make a more stringent and immediate response to regulate the effects of human industry and waste on the environment.

Posted inOpinion

Museum Honors Greta Thunberg’s Activism by … Naming a Beetle After Her?

by Sarah Rose Sharp October 29, 2019October 30, 2019

To properly honor the teenage climate activist, institutions should instead advocate for policy change, prioritize their ecological footprint, and hold large corporations accountable.

Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian
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Mohawk Artist Shelley Niro’s First Major Retrospective Opens at the National Museum of the American Indian

“Shelley Niro: 500 Year Itch” confronts the challenges of being Indigenous and female in the United States and Canada. On view in NYC.

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