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Oil Slick on Klimt’s “Death and Life”

Last Generation activists throw oily liquid at Gustav Klimt’s “Death and Life.”
Last Generation activists throw oily liquid at Gustav Klimt’s “Death and Life.” Photo: Letzte Generation

Last Generation activists threw an inky black liquid at Gustav Klimt’s “Death and Life” painting at the Leopold Museum in Vienna this November. One of the protestors then glued himself to the glass that protected the painting, the Associated Press reported.

A video of the action showed how a museum guard grabbed one of the activists while the other glued himself to the painting. “Stop the fossil fuel destruction. We are racing into a climate hell,” one of the protesters said, according to the AP.

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