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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 27/08/2020 - 11:24am
Posted on August 27, 2020 In February, 1500 people joined us to protest BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum. We peacefully occupied the building and grounds for three days to shine a spotlight on the oil company’s impacts around the world, and the ways in which the museum’s own history and that of its sponsor were born out of colonialism and Empire. But as the British Museum reopens today,
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 04/05/2020 - 11:34am
This from our friends at Culture Unstained: https://cultureunstained.org/2020/05/04/bp-dropped-as-judge-of-portrait… BP DROPPED AS JUDGE OF PORTRAIT AWARD AFTER 23 YEARS May 4, 2020 For the first time in 23 years, BP has not had a representative on the judging panel of the
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 20/03/2020 - 10:56am
Cultural institutions and arts organisation have taken the difficult decision to shut their doors as part of a nationwide response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Many took this decision unilaterally, rightly prioritising the need to protect the health and safety of their artists, visitors and staff. Many cultural organisations, venues and funders have already done the right thing by giving their
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 16/03/2020 - 1:04pm
From https://www.facebook.com/ArtNotOil/ 'Shell’s last two major corporate partnerships with arts organisations come to an end! Its deals with the South Bank Centre and the British Film Institute cost the equivalent of loose change to Shell, so either a) the arts institutions don’t want to be associated with an oil company any more, b) Shell
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 16/03/2020 - 12:52pm
Sign this if you can:
https://my.uplift.ie/petitions/stop-the-bp-portrait-exhibition-at-ulste…
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sun, 09/02/2020 - 9:27pm
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More from our fantastic friends BP or not BP:
https://bp-or-not-bp.org/news/
'This morning at 10.30am, 40 activists processed out of the British
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 07/02/2020 - 8:36pm
From our friends at BP or not BP:
https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2020/02/07/breaking-
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 10/01/2020 - 2:51pm
From our friends at https://bp-or-not-bp.org/troy/
MASS ACTION against the climate crisis and colonialism – let’s kick BP out of the British Museum!
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH 2020 (exact times tbc)
Want to join the largest protest the British Museum has ever seen?
The British Museum is launching a major new exhibition, sponsored by the oil giant BP.
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 22/11/2019 - 7:49pm
November 20, 2019 by bpornotbp:
'Last night, the private VIP launch of the BP-sponsored ‘Troy: Myth and reality’ exhibition faced serious disruption after we occupied the 5 main entrances to the exhibition gallery inside the British Museum. Our actor-vists refused to leave the museum when it closed to the public and instead, began converting themselves into Troy-themed “living statues”,
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 19/11/2019 - 5:03pm
https://www.zoelafferty.com/open-letter?fbclid=IwAR2J1Gee2_Z5EM35kmS3-u…
18th November 2019
Dear Hartwig Fischer and Trustees of the British Museum,
As one of the performers and the director of the groundbreaking play ‘Queens of Syria’, we were initially thrilled to
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 11/11/2019 - 5:28pm
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/announcement…
Statement from the National Galleries of Scotland, 11 November 2019:
"At the National Galleries of Scotland we recognise that we have a
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 05/10/2019 - 6:29pm
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Second major cultural institution in a week to stand by its state its commitment to its statement of cultural emergency:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49936748
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 02/10/2019 - 1:47pm
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Art Not Oil is delighted that the the RSC is showing ethical leadership and will no longer clean up BP's tarnished brand
• BP remains 97% invested in fossil fuels
• Iit spends $millions lobbying against climate action
• it works with repressive regimes to get new oil
See https://www.facebook.com/BPnotBP
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 28/09/2019 - 8:10pm
From BP or not BP: School strikers threaten to boycott RSC over BP sponsorship
https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2019/09/26/school-strikers-threaten-to-boycott…
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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 28/09/2019 - 1:34pm
From our friends at Liberons Le Louvre (https://www.facebook.com/LiberonsleLouvre/ & zerofossile.org/louvre):
'We have stained the Louvre Pyramid, of which total is still a partner, because total has dirty hands and the museum also dirties its image by continuing to reach one of the main leaders of the climate crisis!'
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 25/09/2019 - 2:20pm
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Thanks to Hyperallergic for this story:
https://hyperallergic.com/518846/global-climate-strike-london/?fbclid=I…
LONDON — On Friday, September 20, thousands of protestors in the UK and millions around the world joined the Global Climate Strike — the
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 23/09/2019 - 9:50pm
From our friends at Fossil Free Culture in the Netherlands:
https://www.fossilfreeculture.nl/portfolio/dissonance-act-2-afterthough…
'As the last notes fade away, two large banners depicting a poem are placed on stage at the Concertgebouw. Fossil Free Culture NL collaborated with award-winning poet Hannah van
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 18/09/2019 - 10:40am
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 17/09/2019 - 11:42pm
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 13/09/2019 - 8:26pm
'Today the Concertgebouw celebrates the Opening Night of its orchestra's new season. On the same day, Fossil Free Culture NL makes clear that there is little to celebrate on a dying planet. Solemn, near motionless performers carrying trays with glasses of black champagne, demonstrate the dissonance between the Concertgebouw's public image and its complicity in the global crimes by Royal Dutch
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 25/07/2019 - 6:11pm
Taken from https://hyperallergic.com/511052/warren-kanders-resigns/
'After months of protest, an emerging biennial boycott, and an accusation of war crimes, Warren Kanders has resigned from his position as vice chairman of the Whitney Museum of American Art’s board of trustees.
“The targeted campaign of attacks against me
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 17/07/2019 - 12:17pm
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From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49006976
An Egyptian writer has resigned from the British Museum's board of trustees, claiming it is "immovable" on its sponsorship deal with oil company BP.
Ahdaf Soueif also cited the museum's positions on worker relations and the repatriation of cultural artefacts as
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 05/07/2019 - 4:21pm
From our friends at Culture Unstained:
https://cultureunstained.org/2019/07/05/leading-artists-escalate-pressu…
* 78 leading artists – including Turner Prize and BP Portrait Award winners – call for end to BP sponsorship at National Portrait Gallery
* Letter calls on Gallery
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 26/06/2019 - 5:52pm
Mark Rylance has today (21.6.19) announced his resignation as an Associate Artist of the RSC over its partnership with BP. This is a huge development, particularly given the past two weeks of opposition to BP sponsorship.
You can read the news article in the Guardian here:
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 26/06/2019 - 5:27pm
From https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/natural-history-museum-refuses-r…
'Yesterday (19.6.19), Extinction Rebellion met with Sir Michael Dixon, director of the Natural History Museum, and his senior staff to ask them to: cancel the Petroleum Group dinner
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 12/06/2019 - 5:51pm
Last night, BP or not BP? delayed the announcement of the award’s winner after temporarily blocking all three entrances to the Gallery. This resulted in security guards helping guests climb
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 12/06/2019 - 5:46pm
From https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jun/12/extinction-… :
'Climate activists attempt to disrupt a BP-sponsored Royal Opera House screening of Romeo and Juliet, and put on their own version of Shakespeare’s
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 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
* Extinction Rebellion group plans to mount protest this evening at first BP Big Screen of
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sun, 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-p…