Last week, one topic dominated the art world’s news forums: the smearing of Leonardo da Vinci’s much-mythologised painting Mona Lisa with a large slice of heavily iced cake — carried out to draw attention to the climate emergency. In a new feature for Elephant, writer journalist Diyora Shadijanova contemplates whether this frosted form of protest was ethical, and decides that it couldn’t have been more so. Click here to read her argument in full, and let us know your thoughts on our Instagram.
