Watch: Two More Climate Change Lunatics Got Caught Throwing Mashed Potatoes On A Monet Painting Worth $110 MILLION
Source - Two climate activists Sunday hurled mashed potatoes at a Monet painting worth tens of millions of dollars in a museum in Potsdam, Germany.
The activists pair from Letzte Generation — German for “last generation” — doused Oscar-Claude Monet’s 130-year-old work “Les Meules” with yellow-tinged mash, and then glued themselves to the wall at the Museum Barberini, video posted on social media showed.
The Video:
“People are starving, people are freezing, people are dying. We are in a climate catastrophe,” protester Mirjam Herrmann yelled after sealing her hand to the wall, according to Der Tagesspeigel. “Science says we won’t be able to feed our families by 2050,” Hermann told onlookers. “This painting will be worth nothing if we have to fight over food.”
Sunday’s incident followed a similar protest in London where two members of a group called “Just Stop Oil” splashed a tin of Heinz tomato soup on Vincent Van Gogh’s “Sunflowers,” which is valued at $85 million.
First of all, how does this keep happening? Were there no changes made after those kids threw tomato soup at the Van Gogh? I know these two incidents took place in different locations but still, maybe be on high alert? Install a velvet rope? Have a security guard standing near the high values pieces? Just thinking out loud here...
Having said that, I actually do understand what these people are trying to do - raise awareness for climate change. What I don't understand is how they fail to realize that the means by which they're doing so is ineffective. No one who watched that video is going to go, "huh, let me look into how I can reduce my carbon footprint." What they will do is say, "God what a bunch of asshole kids." The vandalization takes away from the message. As does the man bun...
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The museum director seems to agree…
“While I understand the activists’ urgent concern in the face of the climate catastrophe, I am shocked by the means with which they are trying to lend weight to their demands,” museum director Ortrud Westheider said in a statement.
Both of the paintings wound up unharmed and security was able to "detach" their hands from the wall "relatively easily." Apparently the Elmers glue didn't stick they way they thought it would. Oh well. I'd be curious to see what the punishment is for these two, but at the same time I don't care. And if you're a museum curator reading this right now, keep your head on a swivel. I'm sure there will be copy cats. That's it for this one. Have a lovely Monday.