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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 27/08/2020 - 11:24am

Posted on August 27, 2020 In February, 1500 people joined us to protest BP’s sponsorship of the British Museum. We peacefully occupied the building and grounds for three days to shine a spotlight on the oil company’s impacts around the world, and the ways in which the museum’s own history and that of its sponsor were born out of colonialism and Empire. But as the British Museum reopens today,

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 04/05/2020 - 11:34am

This from our friends at Culture Unstained: https://cultureunstained.org/2020/05/04/bp-dropped-as-judge-of-portrait… BP DROPPED AS JUDGE OF PORTRAIT AWARD AFTER 23 YEARS May 4, 2020 For the first time in 23 years, BP has not had a representative on the judging panel of the

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 20/03/2020 - 10:56am

Cultural institutions and arts organisation have taken the difficult decision to shut their doors as part of a nationwide response to the Covid-19 outbreak. Many took this decision unilaterally, rightly prioritising the need to protect the health and safety of their artists, visitors and staff. Many cultural organisations, venues and funders have already done the right thing by giving their

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 16/03/2020 - 1:04pm

From https://www.facebook.com/ArtNotOil/ 'Shell’s last two major corporate partnerships with arts organisations come to an end! Its deals with the South Bank Centre and the British Film Institute cost the equivalent of loose change to Shell, so either a) the arts institutions don’t want to be associated with an oil company any more, b) Shell

By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sun, 09/02/2020 - 9:27pm
Raki Ap from the Free West Papua campaign; photo by Amy Scaife , , , , Campaigners from Senegalese civil society group Aar Li Nu Bokk speak inside the museum as part of the mass action. Photo by Amy Scaife. , Photo by Amy Scaife ,
More from our fantastic friends BP or not BP: https://bp-or-not-bp.org/news/ 'This morning at 10.30am, 40 activists processed out of the British
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 07/02/2020 - 8:36pm
From our friends at BP or not BP: https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2020/02/07/breaking-
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 04/02/2020 - 4:10pm
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 10/01/2020 - 2:51pm
From our friends at https://bp-or-not-bp.org/troy/ MASS ACTION against the climate crisis and colonialism – let’s kick BP out of the British Museum! SATURDAY FEBRUARY 8TH 2020 (exact times tbc) Want to join the largest protest the British Museum has ever seen? The British Museum is launching a major new exhibition, sponsored by the oil giant BP.
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Fri, 22/11/2019 - 7:49pm
November 20, 2019 by bpornotbp: 'Last night, the private VIP launch of the BP-sponsored ‘Troy: Myth and reality’ exhibition faced serious disruption after we occupied the 5 main entrances to the exhibition gallery inside the British Museum. Our actor-vists refused to leave the museum when it closed to the public and instead, began converting themselves into Troy-themed “living statues”,
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 19/11/2019 - 5:03pm
https://www.zoelafferty.com/open-letter?fbclid=IwAR2J1Gee2_Z5EM35kmS3-u… 18th November 2019 ​ Dear Hartwig Fischer and Trustees of the British Museum, ​As one of the performers and the director of the groundbreaking play ‘Queens of Syria’, we were initially thrilled to
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 11/11/2019 - 5:28pm
https://www.nationalgalleries.org/art-and-artists/features/announcement… Statement from the National Galleries of Scotland, 11 November 2019: "At the National Galleries of Scotland we recognise that we have a
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 05/10/2019 - 6:29pm
Second major cultural institution in a week to stand by its state its commitment to its statement of cultural emergency: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-49936748
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 02/10/2019 - 1:47pm
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Art Not Oil is delighted that the the RSC is showing ethical leadership and will no longer clean up BP's tarnished brand • BP remains 97% invested in fossil fuels • Iit spends $millions lobbying against climate action • it works with repressive regimes to get new oil See https://www.facebook.com/BPnotBP
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 28/09/2019 - 8:10pm
From BP or not BP: School strikers threaten to boycott RSC over BP sponsorship https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2019/09/26/school-strikers-threaten-to-boycott… ------------------- And this, taken from https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/