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When Art Meets Activism. As Tate faces the Information Tribunal over BP sponsorship, is there a line between art and ethics?
Interview with Kevin Smith (Platform) and Hannah Davey (Liberate Tate)
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Le sponsoring culturel des géants du pétrole crée la polémique
Cultural sponsorship by oil company giants is creating debate Tristan de Bourbon, London; in Tribune de Genéve, page 11
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“Protests might intensify” over BP sponsorship
Tate has faced an Information Tribunal to defend its right to keep details of its financial relationship with the oil company a secret. Frances Richens, Arts Professional
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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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Not cool
(on Tate’s reaction to Platform’s Freedom of Information request to see the minutes of the ethics committee for the meeting where the decision on renewing BP’s sponsorship was taken) Art Monthly news piece
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‘Art & Activism, Water & Oil, Then & Now’
2 articles by Platform in ‘The Environment’ magazine, Sept 2013 (CIWEM) 1st by Jane Trowell on 30 years of Platform, 2nd by Kevin Smith ‘The arts must not be used to cleanse the reputations of dirty business’ on oil sponsorship of the arts
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