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Vienna 'few degrees' exhibit tilts paintings to call for climate action

A visitor of the Leopold museum looks at the painting " A boy at the spring " by Albin Egger Lienz after the museum tilted 15 of its paintings in protest of climate change in Vienna, Austria, March 22, 2023. REUTERS/Leonhard Foeger

A Vienna museum where climate activists recently attacked the glass screen shielding a Gustav Klimt painting has responded with an exhibit entitled 'A Few Degrees More' that tilts works to draw attention to the need for action on climate change.

Activists from the group Last Generation smeared the screen in front of Klimt's "Death and Life" at the Leopold Museum in Vienna and glued one of their hands to it in the November protest calling for an end to drilling for oil.

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