Environment activists smear red paint on Monet artwork at Stockholm museum (the protective glass) [View all]

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Two activists on Wednesday smeared red paint and then glued their hands to the protective glass on “The Artist’s Garden at Giverny,” a painting by the French Impressionist Claude Monet on display in an exhibition at Stockholm’s National Museum, a video released by the organization Aterstall Vatmarker (Restore Wetlands) shows.

The museum’s press office confirmed the incident to CNN.

“In the afternoon of June 14 around 2:30 p.m. (8:30aET) an action was carried out at the National Museum in Stockholm. Two people made handprints with some kind of paint on an artwork by the artist Monet in the exhibition ‘The Garden – Six Centuries of Art and Nature’ and then glued themselves to the glass,” the museum’s press office said.

“The painting, which is encased in glass, is now being inspected by museum conservators to determine whether there is any damage,” the press office continued.

Environment activists on June 14 smeared red paint and glued their hands to the protective glass on a Monet painting at Stockholm's National Museum, police and the museum said. The organisation Aterstall Vatmarker (Restore Wetlands) claimed responsibility for the action in an interview with AFP. - Aterstall Vatmarker/Handout/AFP/Getty Images
Police were called to the scene and arrested two women, the Stockholm Region police said in a press release.

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