Video footage released on social media by the Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies group shows two female protesters applying glue to their hands and pressing it onto the screen prints. Several blue scribbles can also be seen on the works, which are behind glass.
“Andy Warhol portrayed maddened consumerism in this iconic series,” protester Bonnie Cassen said in a statement from the activist group. “And now capitalism is out of control. Families have to choose between medicines and food for their children, while fossil fuel companies are making record profits.”
Activists around the world are using famous works of art to draw attention to the climate crisis. In October, climate activist Phoebe Plummer threw tomato soup over Vincent van Gogh’s painting ‘Sunflowers’ at the National Gallery in London. In the Netherlands, among others, the painting Girl with a Pearl Earring by Johannes Vermeer was the target of Belgian climate activists.
