'The announcement from BP that it plans to pump £10m into major arts institutions demonstrates a massively disappointing failure of nerve from the directors and trustees of those institutions. They have passed up an extraordinary opportunity to stand together with the arts community and other threatened essential services to tell the government that there this no shortage of wealth in this country, only a crisis born of inequality, militarism and mismanagement.'

Sam Chase, Art Not Oil, 19.12.12

BP is sponsoring the 2012 Cultural Olympiad and London 2012 Festival in the UK. Do you have a creative response to this situation that we might be able to add to our Cultural or Vultural 2012? gallery? If so, please contact us here: info@artnotoil.org.uk or 07709 545116.

Guardian coverage: www.guardian.co.uk/artanddesign/2011/dec/13/tate-bp-partnership-environmental-protests 

Alice Oswald on her very brave decision to withdraw from the newly hedge fund-sponsored poetry prize:

Pressure mounts on Trustees to reject extension of relationship with BP as more than  8,000 Tate Members and visitors sign open letter calling on the art museum to break links with oil company

Below is embedded the full Culture Beyond Oil publication. Click expand within it to read full screen:

Bob & Roberta Smith brands oil company "a disgrace", as campaign groups call for end of sponsorship deal:

 "The Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement describes contemporary U.S.

Liberate Tate, Art Not Oil and Platform warmly invite you to a get-together to end oil sponsorship of the arts. Featuring a performance from singer-comedian Mae Martin, contributing artist to the upcomingTate à Tate audio tour, the evening will be the first opportunity to purchase the freshly stamped limited edition copies of 'Not if but when: Culture Beyond Oil'.

Tate Neccesarily So from APE UK on Vimeo.