Climate activists glue themselves to Warhol artwork in Australian capital

By Lewis Jackson SYDNEY (Reuters) -Climate protesters glued themselves to an Andy Warhol painting at the National Art Gallery of Australia in Canberra on Wednesday, the latest in a spate of activist demonstrations in art galleries around the world. Video footage released by the Stop Fossil Fuel Subsidies group showed two female protesters using an adhesive to stick their hands to Andy Warhol’s “Campbell’s Soup I”, on display at the national gallery in Canberra. Several blue scrawls were also seen across the series of 10 paintings, which are behind glass. “Andy Warhol depicted consumerism gone …

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