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Climate Activists Protest the Museum of Modern Art’s Fossil Fuel Donors Outside Its Biggest Fundraising Gala
As smoke from Canadian wildfires blanketed Manhattan, protesters at the legendary arts institution’s party demanded it cut ties with the founder of a hedge fund that is among the biggest funders of oil and gas projects.
By Keerti Gopal
NEW YORK—The Midtown Manhattan air was filled with dangerous levels of smoke from Canadian wildfires on Tuesday evening, but that didn’t keep climate activists from gathering outside the Museum of Modern Art’s biggest gala to protest the museum’s ties with fossil fuel billionaires.
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