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LEADING ARTISTS ESCALATE PRESSURE ON PORTRAIT...

From our friends at Culture Unstained:
https://cultureunstained.org/2019/07/05/leading-artists-escalate-pressur...

Mark Rylance as Romeo, RSC 1989

Mark Rylance resigns from the RSC

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.

A specially-painted portrait of Cherri Foytlin, Indigenous journalist, advocate and mother of six, who lives on the Gulf Coast in South Louisiana. She has been a tireless campaigner for justice for all those affected by BP’s catastrophic Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. The quote is part of a longer message she sent us in 2016, calling on UK arts institutions to stop promoting BP. Portrait by Zora Owen, photo by Diana More.

Guests at BP Portrait Award forced to climb over...

Photograph: Gareth Morris/Courtesy of Extinction Rebellion

Extinction Rebellion take on BP in Trafalgar...

From https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jun/12/extinction-r... :

BP Portrait Award judge and artists speak out

'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'...

100s join indigenous-led tour of British Museum,...

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.

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Natural History Museum refuses request to cut ties with fossil fuels industry

By: Art Not Oil

Date: 26/06/2019 - 5:27pm

From https://www.thelondoneconomic.com/news/natural-history-museum-refuses-re...

200 musicians urge Sadiq Khan to drop permission for BP’s opera branding

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

Campaign win! Edinburgh Science Festival drops fossil fuel sponsorship

By: Art Not Oil

Date: 14/04/2019 - 3:51pm

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