[Photo: BP or not BP? at the launch of the Gallery’s Shell-sponsored Rembrandt exhibition; (copyright: Kristian Buus)]
From our friends at Culture Unstained...
SHELL ENDS NATIONAL GALLERY PARTNERSHIP IN BID TO BOOST INFLUENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
October 20, 2018
- National Gallery confirms that controversial partnership with oil giant Shell is over
- Gallery joins list of major Dutch Museums
From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil and Injustice, 15-23 September, Brixton Recreation Centre, 27 Brixton Station Road, London SW9 8QQ
Part of the Brixton Design Trail during the London Design Festival
Free entry, 9am-9pm
The exhibition includes most of the art that was originally removed from the ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition at the Design Museum in protest at the museum hosting an arms industry
From https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2018/07/25/artists-say-nope-to-arms/
25.7.18
'This morning, we’re part of a large group of artists, designers and activists who have written to the Design Museum asking that our work be removed from the current Hope to Nope exhibition of political art. The letter and signatories can be found