From https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49006976
An Egyptian writer has resigned from the British Museum's board of trustees, claiming it is "immovable" on its sponsorship deal with oil company BP.
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By: Art Not Oil
Date: 03/05/2018 - 11:29am
From Culture Unstained, 3.5.18:
On Monday night, we guest hosted #MuseumHour, a weekly Twitter discussion for the museums sector ‘to ask the unsayable and think the unthinkable’.
By: Art Not Oil
Date: 17/04/2018 - 4:04pm
Five years ago, the British Museum outsourced a number of its facilities jobs to Carillion. That company has now collapsed, but the museum is refusing to give those workers any reassurance that their jobs will be secure. In fact, they're refusing to even meet with the workers or their PCS union reps.
By: Art Not Oil
Date: 29/03/2018 - 2:30pm
On Monday, March 12, more than a dozen demonstrators entered the Louvre museum in Paris and laid down in front of Theodore Géricault’s iconic oil painting The Raft of Medusa, 1818–19, in protest of the French oil and gas company Total and its sponsorship of the institution.