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Climate Activist Sentenced For Smearing Paint On Sculpture During Demonstration At DC Gallery
The New Yorker who defaced a famed exhibit inside the National Gallery of Art earlier this year in DC will spend time in prison, but received a lenient sentence, federal authorities announced. Brooklyn native Joanna Smith pleaded guilty late last year to causing thousands of dollars worth of damage to Edgar Degas' "Little Dancer, Age Fourteen" during a targeted attack in May. On Friday, she was sentenced to 60 days in prison, though she had faced up to five years. According to prosecutors, Smith and North Carolina native Timothy Martin did their research and sought to deface the belo…