Oil

From school strikers at the Royal Shakespeare Company to a Trojan horse at the British Museum, protests over oil sponsorship have gripped the arts

Activists dressed as Greek gods and goddesses drenched in oil

Decision follows several arts institutions including the Royal Shakespeare Company and National Theatre cutting ties to fossil fuel giants

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The decision comes as activists promise the ‘biggest protest yet’ at the British Museum over oil funding

Staff members have written in support of Ahdaf Soueif, the trustee who resigned over oil money, restitution silence and employment precarity

In further news: British Museum director defends BP sponsorship; David Zwirner to open in Paris

A group of leading artists and a judge of the annual BP portrait prize have urged the London institution to cut ties with the oil company

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The oil giant has ended its 12-year sponsorship deal with the London museum

Complicating the ‘disaster narratives’ associated with the Niger Delta by attending to the local ecology, and those responsible for defiling it

The Mauritshuis in The Hague also joins the Amsterdam institution in ending funding from the oil and gas company