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'... 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:

100s join indigenous-led tour of British Museum, for repatriation and against BP

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…

Campaign win! Edinburgh Science Festival drops fossil fuel sponsorship

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

Van Gogh Museum ends Shell sponsorship deal

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.

Fake BP staff and Iraqi protesters greet press at BP-sponsored exhibition (6.11.18)

[Photos by Kristian Buus] From our friends at BP or not BP?: On November 6th 2018, a group of performers set up a fake BP “welcoming committee” and Iraqi civilian protest in front of the I am Ashurbanipal: king of the world, king of Assyria exhibition at the British Museum. The performance was timed to coincide with a private exhibition viewing by journalists and VIPs, and the performers stayed for the whole morning talking to journalists, museum visitors and staff. The performers were from the activist theatre group BP or not BP?, and included a number of people of Iraqi heritage.

From Nope to Hope art exhibition, 15-23 Sept 2018

From Nope to Hope: Art vs Arms, Oil and Injustice, 15-23 September, Brixton Recreation Centre, 27 Brixton Station Road, London SW9 8QQ Part of the Brixton Design Trail during the London Design Festival Free entry, 9am-9pm The exhibition includes most of the art that was originally removed from the ‘Hope to Nope’ exhibition at the Design Museum in protest at the museum hosting an arms industry event. It also includes political, activist and grassroots art from the Guerrilla Girls, Jeremy Deller, Gee Vaucher, Art the Arms Fair and many more.