Swedish Court Acquits Climate Activists Who Smeared Paint on Monet Painting

A Stockholm court on Monday acquitted six activists who smeared red paint on the display cade protecting a Claude Monet painting, ruling that they had not intended to damage the work.The painting, The Artist’s Garden at Giverny (1900), was on loan from the Musée d’Orsay in Paris to the National Museum of Sweden as part of an exhibition on Impressionists and gardens when, in June 2023, two young women spread paint onto the glass covering the vibrant depiction of pink and p