Climate Activists Target Degas Sculpture in Washington D.C.

2022 was filled with incidents in which activists began targeting high-profile artworks to raise awareness to climate change. Largely confined to Europe, the protests have come to the U.S., where yesterday at 11am ET, two Americans dressed in black suits smeared red and black paint across the case protecting Edgar Degas' Little Dancer Aged Fourteen (1879-1881) at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C.The two protestors, Tim Martin from Raleigh, North Carolina, and Joanna Smith from Broo...