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Who funds the arts and why we should care
As the arts increasingly depend on private and corporate funding, questions arise about how closely artists and institutions should examine the sources of finance Rachel Spence, Financial Times
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Pressure grows over BP arts sponsorship
Oil giant facing criticism over corporate sponsorship of cultural institutions including the Royal Opera House Terry Macalister, The Guardian
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Tate fears that “protests might intensify” over BP sponsorship
Richard Aydon, the Tate head of legal yesterday admitted in a tribunal that Tate fears that “protests might intensify” as a result of potential revelations about its controversial sponsorship relationship with BP. The statement was made when Aydon was acting as a witness before the Information Tribunal where Tate was appealing against a March ruling…
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Tate’s argument for keeping BP sponsorship secret just doesn’t add up
Today we’re in court with Tate over a long running struggle to get them to say just how much sponsorship money they’re getting from BP. Working alongside Freedom of Information specialists Request Initiative, we’ve put a lot of time and energy in to trying to find out this figure, and this is why it’s important.…
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BP: stop fuelling repression in Azerbaijan
This morning I stood outside BP’s International HQ in St James’s Square, London. I was attending a solidarity action for a missing protest. We should have been supporting a similar demo in Azerbaijan’s capital but there were no banners outside BP’s offices in Baku this morning. A woman in the distinctive blue tabard of Baku’s…
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After nearly three years of legal struggle, is Tate going to shed light on BP sponsorship details?
On Thursday Tate is going to be appearing before the Information Tribunal over their lack of disclosure about conversations around BP sponsorship and about the amount of money that they’re getting from BP.It’s in Tate’s interest for people to think that it couldn’t possibly survive without BP’s dirty money, but we don’t think that’s true.…
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BP’s #IndyRef position – returning a political favour for Deepwater intervention?
BP CEO Bob Dudley has once again stepped into the Scottish Independence Referendum debate, declaring via a special BP press release: “As a major investor in Scotland – now and into the future – BP believes that the future prospects for the North Sea are best served by maintaining the existing capacity and integrity of…
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Tate’s BP sponsorship disclosure on trial at Information Tribunal
Tate is to appear before the Information Tribunal on Thursday 18 September in the culmination of an almost three-year long legal battle over its refusal to disclose information surrounding its controversial sponsorship relationship with oil company BP. Tate has been subject to long-standing Freedom of Information requests regarding both the amount of money it had…
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The secret motives that drive climate denial are about to be exposed….
New website DeSmog UK aims to smoke out industry-forged climate denial and begins by naming funders of Lord Lawson’s Global Warming Policy Foundation. “Climate deniers are always highly intelligent, scrupulously honest and ideologically sound,” some wit once observed. “But never all three at the same time.” The quip raises one of the most fascinating questions…
2 Sep 2014 admin
