Vancouver police say they’ve recognized the suspects who threw maple syrup on an Emily Carr portray and glued themselves to a wall on the Vancouver Art Gallery over the weekend.
Sgt. Steve Addison says an investigation is underway and officers can be talking to witnesses, reviewing safety video and assessing the price of the injury.
The Vancouver Art Gallery says in a press release that Carr’s “Stumps and Sky” portray suffered no everlasting hurt.
It quotes director and CEO Anthony Kiendl as saying the gallery “condemns acts of vandalism” in direction of works of cultural significance in its care, or in any museum.
Kiendl says the gallery helps free expression, however not on the expense of suppressing others’ concepts and inventive expression, or inhibiting individuals from entry to these concepts.
Don Marshall, a spokesman for the environmental group Stop Fracking Around, says the protest was meant to focus public consideration on the local weather emergency.
Addison says that after police end accumulating proof, they’ll transfer ahead to Crown counsel for assessment and approval of expenses.
