Climate activists take Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup” ahead of Southeast Florida hurricane warning on Wednesday

At the Australian National Gallery in Canberra, climate activists clung to transparent tarpaulins covering Andy Warhol’s famous “Campbell’s Soup” silkscreens on Wednesday. The artworks were not damaged during the campaign.

The activists acted as a group called Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies in Australia, the museum in the Australian capital said. They also sprayed graffiti on the sails. The museum said it would not comment further on the action.

For several weeks, climate activists have been holding similar protests in art museums around the world. Last Saturday, activists clung to paintings by Baroque master Francisco de Goya at the Prado Museum in Madrid.

Also actions in Rome, Potsdam, Paris and The Hague

The day before, environmentalists from the Last Generation group spilled pea soup on a Vincent van Gogh painting in Rome. Previously, at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam, mashed potatoes were thrown at a photo of Claude Monet.

Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” in the Louvre and Johannes Vermeer’s “Girl with a Pearl Earring” in The Hague were also the target of similar protests. A month ago, two climate activists stuck to a Picasso painting in Melbourne, Australia. Because all the affected artworks were behind glass, they remained undamaged.

With their actions, the activists want to make clear the urgency of measures to combat global warming. That valuable works of art are attacked in this way is criticized in many places. (aeg/sda/afp)