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Climate protestors attack Degas sculpture at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC
Climate protesters have vandalised the display case of Edgar Degas’ Little Dancer sculpture at the National Gallery of Art museum in Washington, D.C.
Two protesters, who have not yet been named and did not pledge allegiance to a protest group, smeared red and black paint on the display case of the small wax sculpture titled La Petite Danseuse de quatorze ans or Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, which was created by the French impressionist artist in 1880.
Kaywin Feldman, the director of the museum, “unequivocally denounced this physical attack,” she said in a statement. She called Little Dancer “a priceless work of art”. The sculpture was taken off display while museum conservators “assess potential damage,” Feldman said.
On Twitter, video footage posted by the Washington Post shows a man and a woman dressed in black suits daubing the case with paint before then staging a sit-in protest in front of the vandalised case before being handcuffed and forcibly detained by security. One of the protestors can be heard requesting the US government “help protect the health and safety of our children”. The Federal Bureau of Investigation is assisting in the investigation, Feldman said.
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The Story of an Iconic Statue: Behind Degas’s Little Dancer
She is famous the world over, but how many people know her name? You can admire her in Washington, Paris, London, New York, Dresden, and Copenhagen, but where is her grave? All we know is her age, 14, and the work she did, because it truly was work, at an age when our own children are attending school. In the 1880s, she danced as a little rat (as girls in training for the corps de ballet were known) at the Paris Opera, and what seems like a dream to many of our young girls today was not a dream to her, not the happy age of youth.
L’Age heureux was the name of a television show when I was growing up, it featured young ballet students at the Paris Opera doing silly things. They climbed onto the roof of the Palais Garnier, I remember, and you were afraid something terrible would happen to them, a fall or expulsion from the program, because discipline was very strict. I don’t remember how it all ended—happily, no doubt, given the show’s title. The little dancer of 1880, though, was sent home after a few years’ work, when the director grew tired of seeing her miss rehearsal—eleven times in the last trimester alone.
But the reason was that she had another jo
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Little Dancer leverage Fourteen Years
Sculpture by Edgar Degas
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Description
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