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 director to ‘remove the BP representative from judging panel’ * Intervention follows Mark Rylance’s resignation from RSC over BP sponsorship Pressure on the National Portrait Gallery (NPG) to drop its B

Mark Rylance has today (21.6.19) announced his resignation as an Associate Artist of the RSC over its partnership with BP.

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 they’re hosting on Thursday 20 June, declare a Climate and Ecological Emergency and cut any and all ties with the fossil fuel industry, including renaming the Hintze Hall. The Museum rejected Extincti

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 over a wall using two footstools. Both Peter Mather and Des Violaris from BP were there…and did not look happy. You can read the BP or not BP?

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 play, Petroleo and Fueliet, as they called on the ROH to drop BP as a sponsor. ‘BP seeks to enhance its image by sponsoring culture and research shows that this approach works,’ XR said'

* 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 the year More here: https://cultureunstained.org/2019/06/11/200-musicians-urg

'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… https://cultureunstained.org/2019/06/09/bp-portrait-award-judge-speaks-… BP sponsorship of Portrait Prize 'a problem', says judge:

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. https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2019/05/05/hundreds-join-indigenous-led-tour-o…

See https://www.facebook.com/scienceunstained From the Guardian, 3.4.19: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/apr/03/edinburgh-science-f… EDINBURGH SCIENCE FESTIVAL CHARITY BANS FOSSIL FUEL SPONSORSHIP Edinburgh Science faced protests from activists for taking money from oil firms The charity runn

Taken from https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/shell-sponsorship Two of the major Dutch museums have just ended their collaboration with Shell, at a time of mounting protests over sponsorship by fossil fuel companies. Amsterdam’s Van Gogh Museum and the Mauritshuis in The Hague both terminated arrangements with the country’s largest oil and gas firm this summer. A Mauritshuis spokesman says that it had a six-year partnership contract with Shell, which was due to end in July and was not renewed.