BP is out of the National Portrait Gallery!
Image: London Rising Tide outside the NPG, June 2003.
This excellent (though somewhat overdue) news just in, via Culture Unstained:
BP’S 30-YEAR SPONSORSHIP OF NATIONAL PORTRAIT GALLERY TO END
- Gallery announces end of 30-year partnership after pressure from leading artists, campaigners and public
- Gallery joins leading cultural institutions in ‘unstoppable rejection’ of fossil fuel funding
- British Museum now in the spotlight over Director’s plans to renew BP sponsorship
More here:
https://cultureunstained.org/2022/02/22/bps-30-year-sponsorship-of-nati…
See also:
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-02-22/bp-ends-30-year-part…
and
https://artreview.com/national-portrait-gallery-ends-bp-sponsorship-aft…
and
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/entertainment-arts-60476760?at_campaign=KARA…
