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CNN —Germany’s busiest airport temporarily suspended flights on Thursday after climate activists glued themselves to the tarmac in a protest against the use of fossil fuels. Climate activist group Letzte Generation, or “Last Generation,” posted videos and photos on X that appeared to show its members on the tarmac. Gas and coal are threatening our existence,” Letzte Generation said on X.CNN has reached out to Frankfurt police for comment. On Wednesday, Letzte Generation members glued their hands to the tarmac at Germany’s Cologne-Bonn airport. Oil Kills said a further nine people blocked security gates at Helsinki airport in Finland, also causing disruption to passengers.

Persons: ”, Oil Kills Organizations: CNN, ”, Oil, Letzte, Germany’s Cologne, Norwegian Government Locations: Germany, Frankfurt, Europe, Bonn, Norway, Oslo, Norwegian, Spain, Barcelona, Helsinki, Finland

NEW YORK (AP) — Carnegie Hall’s 2024-25 season will feature a festival celebrating Latin music titled “Nuestros Sonidos (Our Sounds).”Gustavo Dudamel opens the season and the festival on Oct. 8, leading the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No. A dozen festival concerts were announced Wednesday and more will be added, with events throughout New York City. The London Symphony Orchestra, in its first season with chief conductor Antonio Pappano, plays at Carnegie Hall for the first time since 2005 when it performs on March 5, 2025. Pianist Igor Levit gives a Jan. 12 recital in which he performs Liszt’s transcription of Beethoven’s Seventh Symphony. Soprano Asmik Grigorian has a recital on Dec. 17, then returns March 18 for Strauss’ “Vier letzte Lieder (Four Last Songs)” with the Cleveland Orchestra and music director Franz Welser-Möst.

Persons: —, ” Gustavo Dudamel, Lang Lang, Gustavo Castillo, Dudamel's, Gabriela Ortiz, Alisa Weilerstein, Mendelssohn’s, María Valverde, Natalia Lafourcade, ”, ” “ We've, Clive Gillinson, Carnegie, ” Gillinson, Kirill Petrenko, Riccardo Muti, Antonio Pappano, Igor Levit, Asmik Grigorian, Strauss, Franz Welser Organizations: — Carnegie, Los Angeles Philharmonic, Music, Arts of South, ” Carnegie, Berlin Philharmonic, Chicago Symphony Orchestra, Jan, Vienna Philharmonic, London Symphony Orchestra, Carnegie Hall, Cleveland Orchestra Locations: Spanish, New York City, Arts of South Africa, America

☆ Berlin's Brandenburg Gate spray-painted by climate activists
▼ + stars: | 2023-09-17 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/5] People walk in front of the Brandenburg Gate after Last Generation ("Letzte Generation") climate activists threw paint on the columns of the Brandenburg Gate in Berlin, Germany, September 17, 2023. REUTERS/Swantje Stein Acquire Licensing RightsFRANKFURT, Sept 17 (Reuters) - Climate activists sprayed orange and yellow paint on the columns of Berlin's landmark Brandenburg Gate on Sunday to push demands for a stop to the use of fossil fuels by 2030. "Members of the so-called 'Last Generation' sprayed the columns on the east side of the Brandenburg Gate with orange paint from fire extinguishers during the morning," Berlin police said on X, formerly known as Twitter. It added that police officers noticed a hydraulic lift was being operated at the gate and they kept the protesters from scaling the landmark building. Germany aims to reach net-zero emissions by 2045, but it missed annual targets for the last two years.

Persons: Swantje Stein, Ludwig Burger, Christina Fincher Organizations: REUTERS, Rights, Thomson Locations: Brandenburg, Berlin, Germany, Europe

☆ Climate change activists protest at Berlin Formula E race
▼ + stars: | 2023-04-23 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

BERLIN, April 23 (Reuters) - Climate change activists delayed the start of an all-electric Formula E race at Berlin's Tempelhof airport circuit on Sunday after they climbed fences and sat in front of cars lined up on the starting grid. Letzte Generation (Last Generation) posted video on Twitter of white T-shirted supporters scaling the wire fence before being carried away by security. A Formula E spokesperson said the protest was "unrelated to the event". read moreBritain's Grand National horse race was delayed by animal rights protesters, with 118 people arrested read more . Twenty five people were also arrested at Saturday's Scottish Grand National.

☆ Climate activists glue themselves to airport tarmac in Berlin and Munich
▼ + stars: | 2022-12-08 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +1 min

[1/6] Activists of "Letzte Generation" (Last Generation) glued themselves to the tarmac of the airport to protest for a speed limit on highways as well as for affordable public transport, in Munich, Germany, December 8, 2022. REUTERS/Anja GuderBERLIN, Dec 8 (Reuters) - Climate activists took their protest against cheap air travel to two of Germany's largest airports on Thursday, with some gluing themselves to the tarmac in Munich and Berlin. According to local media, flights at Munich airport were disrupted. Police in southern Germany said the protesters were currently being unglued from the Munich airport tarmac and taken into custody, and the protests were dispersed. Thursday's actions are the latest effort by activists to raise awareness by blocking runways and streets in Germany.

Many in the art and insurance world, however, say it may be only be a matter of time before art works are vandalised, especially if protests spread beyond climate activism. The art insurance market globally earns around $750 million in premiums. PRESSURE ON PREMIUMSLosses and levels of insurance availability tend to dictate insurance premiums. Commercial museums and galleries, however, buy art insurance, and its use is also more prevalent among larger museums in the United States than in Europe. While five insurers contacted by Reuters said they were not yet factoring climate attacks into premiums, some artists say they already face increased costs.

☆ Berlin airport reopens runways after climate protest
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-24 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +1 min

A climate activist glues herself to a runway at the Berlin Brandenburg Airport (BER) during a protest, in Berlin, Germany November 24, 2022, in this still image obtained from a handout video. The activists from the Last Generation environmental group called on the public to stop travelling by air and on the government to stop subsidising it. The protest, the latest by climate activists in Germany, also urged the government to expand cheap train travel offers. A spokesperson for the airport said the activists had entered the airport from two points in the north and south, and police had detained them. Flight tracking website FlightRadar24 showed some aircraft that were originally heading to the airport changed their route.

☆ Climate activists attack glass screen protecting Klimt painting in Vienna
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.reuters.com time to read: +2 min

[1/4] Gustav Klimt's painting "Tod und Leben" is seen after activists of Last Generation Austria (Letzte Generation Oesterreich) spilled oil on it in Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria, November 15, 2022. Letzte Generation Oesterreich/Handout via REUTERSVIENNA, Nov 15 (Reuters) - Climate-change activists on Tuesday smeared and glued one of their hands to a glass screen protecting a Gustav Klimt painting in a Vienna museum to protest against oil drilling, on a day when entry was free thanks to an oil firm's sponsorship. One of Last Generation Austria's tweets said: "New drilling for oil and gas is a death sentence for humanity." Nonetheless we are shocked that the Leopold Museum was in focus here," the museum's museological director, Hans-Peter Wipplinger, told a news conference. While the museum sympathised with the activists' cause, it disagreed with the means employed, Wipplinger said.

☆ Climate activists throw black, oily liquid at Klimt painting in Vienna
▼ + stars: | 2022-11-15 | by ( ) www.cnbc.com time to read: +3 min

Gustav Klimt's painting "Tod und Leben" is seen after activists of Last Generation Austria (Letzte Generation Oesterreich) spilled oil on it in Leopold museum in Vienna, Austria, November 15, 2022. Climate activists in Austria on Tuesday attacked a famous painting by artist Gustav Klimt with a black, oily liquid and one then glued himself to glass protecting the painting's frame. After the attack, police arrived at the museum and the black liquid was quickly cleaned off the glass protecting the painting, Austria Press Agency reported. It's one of the latest pieces of art to be targeted by climate activists to draw attention to global warming. The British group Just Stop Oil threw tomato soup at Vincent van Gogh's "Sunflowers" in London's National Gallery last month.

☆ Environmental activists pelted a $110 million Monet painting with mashed potatoes days after a Van Gogh painting was attacked by protesters
▼ + stars: | 2022-10-24 | by ( Huileng Tan | ) www.businessinsider.com time to read: +2 min

Climate protesters threw mashed potatoes at a $110 million Claude Monet painting in a German museum. The "Haystacks" painting was acquired by German billionaire Plattner for $110.7 million in 2019. The video showed the two activists kneeling on the floor after they pelted the painting "Les Meules," or "Haystacks," with mashed potatoes at the Museum Barberini, which is located in the city of Potsdam. And all you are afraid of is tomato soup or mashed potatoes on a painting," said one of the protesters in northeast Germany, according to a English-subtitled video tweeted by Last Generation. "Does it take mashed potatoes on a painting to make you listen?

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