{"id":1921219,"date":"2023-04-29T08:25:45","date_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:25:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iconic-sculpture-targeted-by-paint-wielding-climate-protesters-in-washington-d-c\/"},"modified":"2023-04-29T08:28:05","modified_gmt":"2023-04-29T12:28:05","slug":"iconic-sculpture-targeted-by-paint-wielding-climate-protesters-in-washington-d-c","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/iconic-sculpture-targeted-by-paint-wielding-climate-protesters-in-washington-d-c\/","title":{"rendered":"Iconic Sculpture Targeted By Paint-Wielding Climate Protesters In Washington, D.C."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">20<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Ficonic-sculpture-targeted-by-paint-wielding-climate-protesters-in-washington-d-c%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1921219&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Climate Activists Vandalize Famous Degas Sculpture<\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/walsh-biden-is-showing-us-why-there-needs-to-be-an-age-limit-on-the-presidency\/\" title=\"WALSH: Biden Is Showing Us Why There Needs To Be An Age Limit On The Presidency\">shocking display<\/a> of vandalism, radical <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/climate-change\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">climate change<\/a> activists targeted a priceless piece of art at the National Gallery of Art in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/washington-d-c\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Washington, D.C<\/a>. on Thursday. The sculpture, called \u201cLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen\u201d by French Impressionist Edgar Degas, was smeared with red and black paint on its pedestal and glass encasement. The protesters hoped to trigger a declaration of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-rules-ca-gov-overstepped-his-authority-with-covid-order-issues-permanent-injunction-restraining-newsom-from-further-issuing-unconstitutional-orders\/\" title=\"Judge Rules CA Gov Overstepped His Authority with Covid Order, Issues Permanent Injunction Restraining Newsom From Further Issuing Unconstitutional Orders\">emergency<\/a> over the climate from President Joe Biden.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Priceless Art Attacked<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u201cToday a priceless work of art in our collection, Degas\u2019s original wax Little Dancer, was attacked by protestors with swaths of red and black paint. After attacking the Degas sculpture, they made statements about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/east-coast-universities-conduct-anti-racist-audit-in-libraries\/\" title=\"East Coast Universities Conduct \u2018Anti-Racist Audit\u2019 In Libraries\">climate issues<\/a>,\u201d said Kaywin Feldman, the director of the museum, in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nga.gov\/press\/2023\/statement-from-the-director.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">statement<\/a>. \u201cWe unequivocally denounce this physical attack on one of our works of art and will continue to share information as it becomes available.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Climate Activists Target Art<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Climate activists have staged similar protests around the world, targeting renowned works of art, typically only damaging the encasements of the art. In this incident, the sculpture was removed from the gallery for evaluation and the gallery in which it could be viewed was closed for the day. The FBI is aiding in the investigation of the incident.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Declare Emergency Group Takes Responsibility<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Declare Emergency, a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.declareemergency.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">far-Left group<\/a> that often protests against the \u201cfossil fuel death project,\u201d said that the protests were by two of its activists, who it named as 53-year-old Joanna Smith of New York City and 54-year-old Tim Martin of Raleigh, North Carolina.<\/span><\/p>\n<h3>Similar Incidents<\/h3>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">In October, a pair of vandals threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh\u2019s iconic \u201cSunflowers,\u201d at an art museum in London. The painting, valued at nearly $85 million, was undamaged in the attack thanks to a glass covering. But the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/watch-global-warming-protesters-vandalize-one-of-worlds-most-iconic-art-masterpieces\/\" title=\"WATCH: Global Warming Protesters Vandalize One Of World\u2019s Most Iconic Art Masterpieces\">shocking display left museum-goers gasping<\/a> and calling for security.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" aria-describedby=\"sk-tooltip-9096\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp&#038;source=gmail&#038;ust=1682517572037000&#038;usg=AOvVaw0eoxTLnzKr3rl49f2LXGnU\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILYWIRE+ APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radical climate change activists targeted another priceless piece of art on Thursday, smearing paint onto the pedestal and glass encasement protecting a famous Edgar Degas sculpture.\u00a0 The vandalism occurred at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., and was directed at a sculpture called \u201cLittle Dancer Aged Fourteen.\u201d Degas, a French Impressionist, finished the<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":200,"featured_media":1921220,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[4321,10924,4802,25411,4007,19252,7185,4086],"class_list":["post-1921219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-climate","tag-d-c","tag-iconic","tag-paint-wielding","tag-protesters","tag-sculpture","tag-targeted","tag-washington"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1921219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1921219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1921220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1921219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1921219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1921219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}