# @hyperallergic on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DPzWSo9k4D6
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/35774183-hyperallergic-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-10-14T20:02:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hyperallergic (@hyperallergic) — https://gondola.cc/hyperallergic

## Caption

Two activists affiliated with the Spanish climate emergency group Futuro Vegetal were arrested at the Museo Naval in Madrid on Sunday, October 12, after throwing biodegradable red paint over a historic painting depicting Christopher Columbus. The group scheduled its action on Spain’s National Day, also known as Día de la Hispanidad, which commemorates the date on which Columbus arrived on the island of Guanahani in 1492.

To futurovegetal, whose mission is to remediate environmental harm and water diversion by ending reliance on livestock farming, October 12 signifies “centuries of oppression, exploitation, and genocide against the indigenous population of Abya Yala,” the group said in a statement on Instagram, using an Indigenous Guna term for parts of the Americas. Futuro Vegetal decried any celebration of Columbus’s legacy, calling for an end to the “glorification of colonization and genocides, both historical and current.”

The demonstrators — both women — splattered paint across the left side of José Garnelo’s “Primeros homenajes del Nuevo Mundo a Colón” (1892) at the Museo Naval around 2pm. They were dragged away from the artwork by museum security and informally detained ahead of the National Police’s arrival, questioning, and subsequent arrest. 

Read the full story by rhea.nayyar at the link in bio.
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Activists splashed red paint across José Garnelo's “Primeros homenajes del Nuevo Mundo a Colón” (1892) at the entrance of the Museo Naval in Madrid. (photo courtesy Futuro Vegetal) 

#Columbus #Colonialism #Spain #Protest #MuseoNaval #DíaDeLaHispanidad

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museonaval, díadelahispanidad, spain, colonialism, columbus, protest

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