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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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