The Barberini Museum said that because the painting was enclosed in glass, the mashed potatoes didn’t cause any damage.
BERLIN — Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum to protest fossil fuel extraction on Sunday, but caused no damage to the artwork.
The group later confirmed via a post on Twitter that the mixture was mashed potatoes. The two activists, both wearing orange high-visibility vests, also glued themselves to the wall below the painting. “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.
The Monet painting is the latest artwork in a museum to be targeted by climate activists to draw attention to global warming.