Bob and Roberta Smith is a British artist and member of the Board of Trustees of Tate (appointed July 2009). These are his words speaking at Art, Activism and the Avant-garde, an event at Somerset House (June 2011) held in response to the imprisonment of Ai Weiwei. First published in Culture Beyond Oil, Bob and …
Monthly Archives: December 2011
Call for Tate governing body to refuse dirty oil money as BP pledges £10 million arts sponsorship
Artists and environmentalists have reacted angrily to an announcement this morning that BP will be pledging £10m over the next five years to sponsor the British Museum, the National Portrait Gallery, the Royal Opera House and Tate Britain. The announcement from BP comes at a time when the sponsorship arrangements between oil companies and cultural …
Tate to open cleaned out Oil Tanks 6 July 2012: A date to celebrate an oil company being cleaned out of Tate
Back in September it was confirmed by ex-BP CEO Lord Browne, chair of Tate, that two huge concrete Oil Tanks behind the Tate Modern were to become art spaces in 2012, in time for the Olympics, “when London will be the focus of worldwide attention”. This will mark the first phase of the £215 million …
ACT TO END TATE OIL SPONSORSHIP
Cultural institutions should not and do not need to continue taking money from polluters like BP. But, they will continue to do so if not enough people take action. If you want to see an end to art’s relationship with the oil industry, here are some of the ways in which you can act towards …
Oil Sponsorship and Tate: A Question of 21st Century Leadership and Governance
Glen Tarman from Liberate Tate examines the role of those with decision-making power at Tate, and their responsibility to act in the interest of the public good as a public body with regards to oil sponsorship. The body that should be taking leadership to end BP’s involvement with Tate is its Board of Trustees, the …
Tate Director Nicholas Serota: Decision on BP-Tate sponsorship to be made soon
Pressure mounts on Trustees to reject extension of relationship with BP as more than 8,000 Tate Members and visitors sign open letter calling on the art museum to break links with oil company 5 December 2011 – For Immediate Release The decision about whether or not to renew an increasingly controversial sponsorship contract with oil …
‘Not If But When: Culture Beyond Oil’ publication now online
Now available to read online – click on the Issuu link here, or you can download the publication as a pdf here. For hard copies by post visit this page on the Platform blog for a range of payment options. December 2011: Art collective Liberate Tate, arts and research organisation Platform and activist group Art …
Liberate Tate 