Protesters glue hands to cover of Picasso painting
The Hindu
The 1951 work by Pablo Picasso "shows the horrors of war", Extinction Rebellion Victoria said on its Facebook page
Two climate activists glued their hands to the perspex cover of Picasso's anti-war painting "Massacre in Korea" in a Melbourne art gallery on Sunday, police, protesters and the gallery said.
The painting emerged unscathed.
The black-clad activists were shown with their hands pressed against the painting in a room of the National Gallery of Victoria in images shared on social media by the Extinction Rebellion movement.
A man wearing a T-shirt with the Extinction Rebellion symbol -- an hourglass in a circle -- stood alongside them.
On the ground at their feet lay a black banner reading "Climate Chaos = War + Famine".
"It is believed three protesters entered the ground level of the gallery before a man and a woman glued themselves to a protective covering of a Picasso painting," said a Victoria Police spokeswoman.
The protesters -- a 49-year-old woman from New South Wales and a 59-year-old man from Melbourne -- were "removed from the painting" more than an hour after their action was believed to have started, the police spokeswoman said.