The environmentalist group “Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies” in Australia targeted American painter Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup Cans,” a multi-canvas work by one of the most important representatives of the pop art movement. The two activists scribbled in blue the bottom row of canvases depicting a variety of soup preserves that have been put on the market at Canberra’s National Gallery. Activists demanded that the Australian government stop funding the oil, gas, and coal industries.
It was stated that the works were protected by glass frames and were not damaged, and that the activists were not detained or arrested as a result of the incident.
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