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BP is out of the National Portrait Gallery!

Art Not Oil Tue, 22/02/2022 - 5:19pm

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

February 22, 2022

  • Gallery announces end of 30-year partnership after pressure from leading artists, campaigners and public
  • Gallery joins leading cultural institutions in ‘unstoppable rejection’ of fossil fuel funding
  • British Museum now in the spotlight over Director’s plans to renew BP sponsorship

More here:

https://cultureunstained.org/2022/02/22/bps-30-year-sponsorship-of-nati…

See also:

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-22/bp-ends-30-year-part…

and 

https://artreview.com/national-portrait-gallery-ends-bp-sponsorship-aft…

and

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60476760?at_campaign=KARA…

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