Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.
Two climate activists on Tuesday targeted Botticelli’s masterpiece “The Birth of Venus” hanging at Florence’s Uffizi Gallery, attaching images of recent flood damage in the Tuscany region on the protective glass.
I think these protesters are pretty dope. They’re highlighting the foolishness and hypocrisy of our values by provoking outrage over the threat to a picture of nature.
It reminds me of a scene in “Children of Men” 2006, where a rich dude has acquired many of the great works including M’s David and Guernica for “preservation”. And it just illustrated the arrogance and wishful thinking that the past can be preserved even at the end of the world. As though keeping rot and death away from an object gives hope we can keep it from ourselves.
There is something similar in the movie “The Midnight Sky” 2020 where another rich asshole tries to escape the apocalypse with a private jet packed with art and important objects in the seats where people could have been sitting.