Happy Thanksgiving weekend from rural Vermont. We’ve had a gloriously warm and sunny fall. If that’s climate change, I’m for it. I’ve written about the climate kooks in Europe and the U.K. smearing heavy-hitter paintings in museums with tomato soup, mashed potatoes, and cake frosting and then gluing their hands to the frames. It’s vandalism and horrifying, to say the least. Mona Lisa got a cream pie, but she’s behind glass. Paintings by Monet, Botticelli, Turner, Constable, and Van Gogh got smeared, too.
Two loonies from an Italian group called Last Generation glued their hands to the base of the Laocoön at the Vatican. Protesters target museums, they say, because they’re icons of a ruling class enriched by oil. Oil consumption, they believe, causes our little planet to overheat. In the Iliad, Laocoon and his sons warned the Trojan brass not to let that big wooden horse into the city.
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