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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sun, 09/06/2019 - 5:01pm
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.
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sun, 14/04/2019 - 3:51pm
See https://www.facebook.com/scienceunstained
From the Guardian, 3.4.19:
https://www.theguardian.com/environment
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 20/02/2019 - 1:56pm
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
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 20/02/2019 - 1:50pm
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 10/11/2018 - 6:28pm
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[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
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 01/11/2018 - 5:51pm
[Photo by Anna Branthwaite]
A report from BP or not BP: https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2018/10/27/ian-hislops-protest-exhibition-inva…
https://youtu.be/1tA39Qf4Vtk
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 23/10/2018 - 8:38pm
[Photo: BP or not BP? at the launch of the Gallery’s Shell-sponsored Rembrandt exhibition; (copyright: Kristian Buus)]
From our friends at Culture Unstained...
SHELL ENDS NATIONAL GALLERY PARTNERSHIP IN BID TO BOOST INFLUENCE IN SCIENCE EDUCATION
October 20, 2018
- National Gallery confirms that controversial partnership with oil giant Shell is over
- Gallery joins list of major Dutch Museums
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Tue, 11/09/2018 - 2:23pm
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
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 28/07/2018 - 9:54pm
From https://bp-or-not-bp.org/2018/07/25/artists-say-nope-to-arms/
25.7.18
'This morning, we’re part of a large group of artists, designers and activists who have written to the Design Museum asking that our work be removed from the current Hope to Nope exhibition of political art. The letter and signatories can be found
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 05/07/2018 - 2:15pm
From https://www.behindthelogos.org/scientists-call-out-science-museum/
A group that includes many leading climate scientists have today lodged a formal complaint with the Science Museum
The museum is accused of ‘undermining its integrity as a scientific institution’ by partnering with BP, Shell and Statoil despite
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 28/06/2018 - 2:23pm
From BP or not BP (https://bp-or-not-bp.org) 27.6.18:
The Royal Shakespeare Company is sponsored by that oily villain BP! So last week, 70 rebel performers did this...
#DropBP #RSCMischief #FossilFree #FossilFreeCulture #ArtNotOil
https://www.facebook.com/BPnotBP/videos/1936631763066377/
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 11/06/2018 - 4:33pm
Around 14:00 (9.6.18), one of the 35 Fossil Free Culture Netherlands performers positioned herself on the monumental staircase of the Van Gogh Museum's main building in Amsterdam, ready to declaim the collective’s newly penned manifesto. As her words rang out, others unfurled long paper banners from the balustrades one by one. Only after the declamation was complete, was the full text legible
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Sat, 05/05/2018 - 6:18pm
Today (4.5.18), 13 performers from artist collective Fossil Free Culture NL placed oil-black handprints on the glass facade of the Van Gogh Museum to remind the institution that dirty money from oil giant Shell stains our culture.
Shell sponsors numerous cultural institutions in the
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Thu, 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’.
Taking our lead from Arts Professional’s recent survey on ethical