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By: Art Not Oil
Date: 12/06/2019 - 5:37pm
* Sadiq Khan called on to end permission for oil branding of Royal Opera House’s ‘BP Big Screen’ broadcasts
* 200 signatories to letter include leading figures from classical, folk and popular music
* News comes day after BP Portrait Award judge and respected artists denounce BP sponsorship of the prize
By: Art Not Oil
Date: 09/06/2019 - 5:08pm
'A judge and several leading artists have written to the director of the National Portrait Gallery on the eve of its annual awards calling on it to end its links to BP'...
https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/jun/09/artists-national-po...
By: Art Not Oil
Date: 09/06/2019 - 5:01pm
Unofficial tour guides and hundreds of attendees descended on the British Museum yesterday, urging it to repatriate objects acquired through colonialism and end its long-standing partnership with the oil giant BP. Museum galleries were packed with people listening to rebel museum talks, and some routes through the museum were temporarily closed by security in response to the crowds.