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Guests at BP Portrait Award forced to climb over wall to enter, thanks to artistic blockade (10.6.19)

By: Art Not Oil
Date: 12/06/2019 - 5:51pm
A specially-painted portrait of Cherri Foytlin, Indigenous journalist, advocate and mother of six, who lives on the Gulf Coast in South Louisiana. She has been a tireless campaigner for justice for all those affected by BP’s catastrophic Deepwater Horizon disaster in 2010. The quote is part of a longer message she sent us in 2016, calling on UK arts institutions to stop promoting BP. Portrait by Zora Owen, photo by Diana More.

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Extinction Rebellion take on BP in Trafalgar Square

By: Art Not Oil
Date: 12/06/2019 - 5:46pm
Photograph: Gareth Morris/Courtesy of Extinction Rebellion

From https://www.theguardian.com/environment/gallery/2019/jun/12/extinction-r... :

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200 musicians urge Sadiq Khan to drop permission for BP’s opera branding

By: Art Not Oil
Date: 12/06/2019 - 5:37pm

* Sadiq Khan called on to end permission for oil branding of Royal Opera House’s ‘BP Big Screen’ broadcasts

* 200 signatories to letter include leading figures from classical, folk and popular music

* News comes day after BP Portrait Award judge and respected artists denounce BP sponsorship of the prize

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