Liberate Tate update, inc. 5th March event in London
Hi there,I just wanted to give you a little update on where we are at with the Licence to Spill exhibition that you very kindly supported.
Courting controversy with artistic tribute to Gulf oil disaster victims, Sept '10
Artist Nick Viney has created a poignant artistic memorial to the 11 lives lost in the Gulf of Mexico oil spill disaster by representing them as oiled seabird sculptures.
Oil painting protest over BP sponsorship in Tate Modern Turbine Hall, 14.10.10
Another Victim of the Gulf Oil Spill: The British Arts?
In the early evening of Tuesday September 14th 2010, a group of artist/activists staged another art-intervention in the Tate Modern turbine hall, with a choreographed sequential squeezing of BP-logo-ed tubes of paint containing 'an oil-like substance'. You can see a 3 minute video clip of the performance here:
Pressure grows on the Tate to ditch BP by 2012
Should the art world dump BP?
http://www.timeout.com/london/art/article/1346/should-the-art-world-dum…Greenpeace boss Sauven on BP and the Tate:
High Tide in the Mersey Basin, March 2010
HIGH TIDE - MERSEY BASIN - LJMU ART & DESIGN ACADEMY
EXHIBITION EVENTS PROGRAMME - MARCH 2010
Lectures:
8 March, 6.00 – 7.30pm
2010 gallery open for, er, business
So, here we go with our 7th annual online gallery, ready to receivyou as a spectator, or if you'd like to submit some art. For thlatter, send what you have at a pretty low resolution tinfo@artnotoil.org.uk
Thanks, and have an excellent 2010...Diary gift goes unacknowledged by bosses of sponsored institutions
As well as dealing with diary orders from with any luck very pleasepunters, we managed to send a clutch of freebies out to the bosses oLondon's sponsored institutions just before the Copenhagen climatsummit.
