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Climate change protesters target famous sculpture at National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

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The National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. says the FBI is involved in an investigation after climate change protesters targeted a famous sculpture – Edgar Degas’ “Little Dancer Aged Fourteen.” 
Photos show activists on Thursday smeared red and black paint on a Plexiglas enclosure that housed the sculpture. The gallery says that experts are assessing the actual sculpture for damage.
“We unequivocally denounce this physical attack on one of our works of art and will continue to share information as it becomes available,” Kaywin Feldman, Director of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, said in a statement.

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