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Internal Documents Show How BP Oiled the Wheels at UK Museums

by Claire Voon May 4, 2016May 7, 2016

After sharing a handful of emails detailing suspicious correspondence between British museums and their sponsor BP, the Art Not Oil Coalition has released the full set of documents it obtained, accompanied by a 40-page report describing the potentially unethical partnerships.

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Liberate Tate Activists Look Back on Six Years of Fighting BP Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 4, 2016April 9, 2016

Last month, BP announced that it will end its 26-year-long sponsorship of Tate.

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BP Will Cease Controversial Tate Sponsorship

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton March 11, 2016

Energy giant BP will cease its sponsorship of Tate in 2017.

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Artist Activists Decry Global Warming During Paris Climate Conference

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne November 30, 2015December 3, 2015

Since no world summit would be complete without artistic demonstrations, activists around the globe have created art protesting climate change and corporate sponsorship of COP21, from live tattooing performances to parody advertisements installed on Paris streets.

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Liberate Tate Annotates Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in 25-Hour Guerrilla Protest

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian June 15, 2015June 19, 2015

Activist art collective Liberate Tate completed a 25-hour unsanctioned performance inside Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall on Sunday, urging the institution to drop its sponsorship deal with BP, one of the world’s largest oil companies.

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Why Liberate Tate Joined the #WhitneyPipeline Protests

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 16, 2015

I interviewed a member of Liberate Tate as to why the group decided to take part in the #WhitneyPipeline protests and what it has accomplished in its own struggle with the Tate.

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Art Protest Groups Join Forces for Guerrilla Ribbon-cutting at New Whitney Museum

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 15, 2015April 19, 2015

Last night, The Illuminator was in Manhattan’s Meatpacking District to project mayday messages on the facade of the soon-to-be-opened Whitney Museum, while a group of two dozen protesters supported by 23 sponsoring organizations launched a guerrilla inauguration for the “fracked gas pipe museum.”

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Performers Shower Tate Britain with Fake Pounds Over Oil Money Ties

by Cassie Packard February 2, 2015February 4, 2015

LONDON — It’s 10am on the last Saturday of January, and Tate Britain is predictably sleepy. The museum has just opened its doors for the day, and a modest coterie of visitors treads lightly to preserve the morning hush.

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Tate Reveals Surprisingly Low Sum of BP Sponsorship Deal [UPDATED]

by Jillian Steinhauer January 26, 2015January 27, 2015

After years of legal wrangling, the Tate museums group has finally disclosed the details of its sponsorship agreement with oil company BP.

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Tate Doesn’t Want to Disclose Details of BP Sponsorship

by Mostafa Heddaya April 1, 2014April 2, 2014

The Tate yesterday filed an appeal to a court order that would have required the museum to release internal documents relating to its controversial sponsorship deal with British Petroleum (BP), Hyperallergic has learned.

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