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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 15/09/2010 - 1:00am

Another Victim of the Gulf Oil Spill: The British Arts?

In the early evening of Tuesday September 14th 2010, a group of artist/activists staged another art-intervention in the Tate Modern turbine hall, with a choreographed sequential squeezing of BP-logo-ed tubes of paint containing 'an oil-like substance'. You can see a 3 minute video clip of the performance here:

http://www.youandifilms.com/2010/09/crude-2010-oil-painting-protest-ove…

For immediate release.

Oil Painting Protest over BP sponsorship in Tate Modern Turbine HallLiberate Tate calls for footprint of art museum to be free from Big Oil Tuesday (14 September) art activists from Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla art intervention in Tate Modern, covering the floor of the iconic Turbine Hall with dozens of litres of oil paint in protest at the museum taking sponsorship from BP.

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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sun, 07/03/2010 - 12:00am

Should the art world dump BP?

http://www.timeout.com/london/art/article/1346/should-the-art-world-dum…

Greenpeace boss Sauven on BP and the Tate:

http://www.guardian.co.uk/culture/2010/jul/02/bp-arts-sponsorship-tate-…
Tate Britain's Summer Party, a celebration of 20 years of BP sponsorship, is flooded with oil and scattered with feathers, (28.6.10)http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPpWPbEPspY 
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pz-_2KLt1W0 
http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/06/454500.html 
http://climatecamp.org.uk/blog/2010/06/30/

LIBERATE TATE COMMUNIQUE #2 (JUNE 2010)It was us and it was art!


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Art Monthly discussion with John Jordan (Liberate Tate etc.) and JJ Charlesworth about BP and museums and art and revolution

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'Should the Tate continue to accept BP sponsorship?'


And this is amazing: 171 artists sign letter calling for Tate to climb free of BP, (Gdn, 28.6.10):'Galleries and museums face summer of protest over BP arts sponsorship', (Gdn 24.6.10)Picture shows 'Disobedience Makes History' workshop participants using the windows of 
IN ADVANCE OF A BROKEN ARM 

ON REFUSING TO PRETEND TO DO POLITICS IN A MUSEUM 

http://www.artmonthly.co.uk/current.htm 

EMAIL DIALOGUE WITH PENELOPE CURTIS, DIRECTOR, TATE BRITAIN, MAY 2010Here's a recent email dialogue with Penelope Curtis, Director of Tate Britain, elicited by our sending to her a copy of the Art Not Oil 2010 diary, and an impassioned plea to consider terminating the relationship with BP.www.tate.org.uk Please note that any information sent, received or held by Tate may be disclosed under the Freedom of Information Act 2000.From: markb@gn.apc.org
Sent: 12 May 2010 15:59To: Penelope CurtisSubject: Tate Britain, BP and the Ethics CommitteeImportance: HighFrom: markb@gn.apc.org
Sent: 13 May 2010 13:49To: Penelope CurtisSubject: Re: Tate Britain, BP and the Ethics Committee'Rising to the climate challenge: artists and scientists imagine tomorrow's world'.barrymasonuk@googlemail.com>Rising to the Climate Challenge: Oil free Tate by 2012?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KokiUgvlwc4
http://www.foto8.com/new/online/photo-stories/1077-pipe-dreams-a-shortf…
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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 05/03/2010 - 12:00am

HIGH TIDE - MERSEY BASIN - LJMU ART & DESIGN ACADEMY

EXHIBITION EVENTS PROGRAMME - MARCH 2010


Lectures:
8 March, 6.00 – 7.30pm

15 March, 4.00 – 5.30pm


16 March, 4.00 – 5.30pm
Workshops:
Tours/Walks:

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