“This spring will be the only one we have left if we don’t react,” said activists who targeted the protective glass on Monet’s “Le Printemps.” Ilona and Sophie of Riposte Alimentaire standing beside Claude Monet’s “Le Printemps” (1880) after souping it on Saturday, February 10 (image courtesy Riposte Alimentaire via Flickr) Just two weeks after souping the protective glass covering the Mona Lisa at the Louvre in Paris, Riposte Alimentaire (“Food Counterattack”) took to the Musée des Beaux-Arts in Lyon for another demonstration targeting Claude Monet’s “Le Printemps” (1880) on Saturday, February 10. At around 3:30pm local time, two young...
