From @Cult_Unstained: 'Wow! This weekend saw huge resistance to unethical sponsorship of two of London’s major museums - by the climate justice movement, Palestine solidarity groups, human rights groups, parents and scientists and young people'...
'Speaking at the festival, the author took aim at the event’s "embarrassing" financial arrangements that come "straight out of the big tobacco playbook"':
https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2022/feb/28/it-makes-us-chumps-tim-…
[Photo: BP or not BP? protest against Scottish Ballet, November 12, 202]
'Scottish Ballet has become the latest cultural institution to distance itself from the fossil fuel industry with an announcement that it has cut its ties with BP. This follows a dance protest outside the Theatre Royal in Glasgow during COP26
Image: London Rising Tide outside the NPG, June 2003.
This excellent (though somewhat overdue) news just in, via Culture Unstained:
BP’S 30-YEAR SPONSORSHIP OF NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY TO END