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US climate activist gets 18-month prison sentence for splashing paint on Degas sculpture’s case

Timothy Martin was convicted of conspiracy and injuring government property over a 2023 protest action at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC

Benjamin Sutton
31 October 2025
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Timothy Martin (left) and Joanna Smith (right), affiliates of Declare Emergency, seated in the National Gallery of Art after smearing paint on the display case and base of Edgar Degas’s La petite danseuse de quatorze ans (Little Dancer Aged Fourteen, 1880) Courtesy of Declare Emergency