Mashed potatoes are thrown at a Monet artwork by environmentalists.

To protest the extraction of fossil fuels, climate protestors today flung mashed potatoes at a Claude Monet painting in a German museum, but the artwork was unharmed.

Two activists from the Last Generation organization approached Monet's Les Meules at the Barberini Museum in Potsdam and threw a thick substance over the painting and its gold frame. Last Generation has urged the German government to take drastic measures to protect....