Climate change protesters glue themselves to Picasso painting in Melbourne
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Two Extinction Rebellion activists glued themselves to a Pablo Picasso painting at a Melbourne gallery.
Police arrested the climate change protesters after they used superglue to stick themselves to Massacre in Korea, on loan to the National Gallery of Victoria in an exhibition developed by the Centre Pompidou and the Musée National Picasso-Paris.
The gallery said the work, which depicts the massacre of naked women and children, was not damaged because it was protected by a perspex cover. The pair were arrested and released without charge.
The climate activist group said it targeted the 1951 anti-war expressionist painting to urge governments, corporations and institutions to take action on the global environmental crisis.
The pair lay down a black banner that said: “Climate Chaos =