Art News
Environmental activists fined for damaging works of art
Jul 24, 2023
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Two environmental activists have been ordered to pay fines for sticking their hands to Raphael's "Sistine Madonna" on display at Dresden's Old Masters Gallery, according to city prosecutors.
Art News
Environmental Protesters Target Monet's 'Spring' with Soup in Museum Incident
Feb 12, 2024
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Activists splattered soup on Claude Monet's "Le Printemps" in a museum in southeast France, part of a series of protests to highlight environmental concerns. The museum intends to pursue legal action, while the group behind the act, Riposte Alimentaire, emphasizes the urgency of combating climate change for the sake of future art and society.
Art News
Monumental Street Art: Klaus Dauven creates amazing and environmentally responsible frescos on a dam!
Oct 22, 2021
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A massive fresco is being painted atop the enormous Vouglans dam in the Jura. Cleaning the dam resulted in the creation of a fresco. An innovative project created by french electricity company, a huge cleaning company, and german artist Klaus Dauven.
Art History
Pollution in art: Turner, Monet and Boccioni "forerunners" of environmental art
Feb 5, 2023
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The nineteenth- and twentieth-century reality, as told by artists, who, like Turner, Monet and Boccioni, documented, without any pretense of ecological denunciation, worthy of the more contemporary Environmental Art, Land Art and Ecological Art...
Art News
Environmental vandalism at the National Gallery: The disfigured portrait of King Charles III
Jul 27, 2023
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Environmental activists have vandalized the portrait of King Charles III at the National Gallery in Edinburgh, despite his support for environmental causes. The group 'This is Rigged' are calling for a halt to oil and gas licenses in Scotland, threatening to 'shut down the oil industry' until their demands are met.
Art News
A Polish museum has fired its director in favor of someone who promises to steer clear of 'pro-environmental, gender, or queer art'
Apr 29, 2022
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According to Gazeta Prawna, Jarosaw Suchan, interim director of Muzeum Sztuki in Łódź, has been fired amid a larger crisis confronting Poland's museums.