Blogposts tagged 'Tate'

BP's Tate sponsorship: 'decision coming soon'

Posted by Mel Evans - 9 December 2011 at 5:33pm - 0 Comments

Discussions are being held about BP's sponsorship of the Tate galleries

Thanks to thousands of Greenpeace supporters, Nicholas Serota, director of the Tate was surprised to be handed a letter at the Tate Members' AGM last Friday evening, signed by over 8000 people calling on him to drop BP as a sponsor. He also said a decision on the matter is expected in the coming weeks.

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BP and the oilier side of arts sponsorship

Posted by bex - 2 July 2010 at 4:08pm - 2 Comments

With BP's sponsorship of the Tate gallery under attack from all sides, BP is keen to make out that it doesn't get much in return for its philanthropic support for the arts.

But some emails we've got hold of under a Freedom of Information request give us a little glimpse that, besides using arts sponsorship to cultivate a socially acceptable face for its devastating operations, BP isn't averse to using it to help grease the way towards bigger shareholder profits.

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Why the arts should avoid BP's toxic sponsorship

Posted by jossc - 30 June 2010 at 4:45pm - 0 Comments

Check out the Rebrand BP competition entries on Flickr

What lies behind BP's very public sponsorship of the arts, I wonder? Is it a selfless desire to spread a little cultural enlightenment down into the ranks of the great British public? Or could it be simply a cynical mechanism to distract attention from the company's terrible record on environment, climate change, and human rights issues?

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