Climate activists throw mashed potatoes at Monet work in Germany

Two protesters pelt painting with potatoes and glue their hands to wall at Museum Barberini in PotsdamClaude Monet has become the latest artist to be the focus of food-related climate protests, after members of a German environmental group threw mashed potatoes over one of his paintings in a Potsdam museum on Sunday.Nine days after Just Stop Oil emptied tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh's Sunflowers at the National Gallery in London, two activists from Letzte Generation (Last Generation) entered the Museum Barberini and doused Monet's Les Meules (Haystacks) with potato before glueing their hands to the wall. Continue reading...