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By: Art Not Oil
Date: Mon, 20/10/2014 - 3:38pm
From the BP or not BP? facebook page - https://www.facebook.com/ReclaimShakespeareCompany
'Tonight, 50 of us sang, chanted, spoke and performed outside Shell's swanky private party at the National Gallery. As senior Shell executives, Gallery management and their guests (
By: Reclaim Shakespeare Company
Date: Wed, 15/10/2014 - 2:17pm
National Gallery taken to task in song for Shell sponsorship and proposed privatisation on eve of staff strike
At 11.25 on Tuesday morning, the official media launch of the National Gallery’s Shell-sponsored Rembrandt exhibition was interrupted by an unexpected musical protest. Ten performers (from the Art Not Oil coalition groups BP or not BP? and Shell Out Sounds)
By: Art Not Oil
Date: Wed, 08/10/2014 - 12:47pm
In a cramped second-floor room in an office block mostly used for immigration hearings, one of the most famous museums in the world is fighting to keep a secret. In March, the Information Commissioner ruled that Tate must, against its wishes, reveal some of what was said in meetings where the latest of several sponsorship deals with oil giant BP was discussed. The museum appealed, and now its