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Standing firm against BP sponsorship of British Museum’s ‘Troy’ exhibition on 8 February 2020. Hundreds of activists trying to end the artwash were also joined by a giant Trojan horse. IMAGEPLOTTER/ALAMY
... Trojan horse. IMAGEPLOTTER/ALAMY Ten years ago, the UK arts and culture scene was awash with oil company logos. From ... the industry was deeply embedded in the most high-profile arts institutions. Today, things look very different. Earlier ... its destructive activities behind a friendly façade of arts and education. High-profile arts partnerships also ...
Performance by curator KV at the 'No Place like Home' exhibition by Vietnamese diaspora collective at the Museum of the Home in London, UK. Julio Etchart
Illustration of Agony Uncle's advice about gentrification. BY EMMA PEER
... prerequisite in all kinds of careers from politics to the arts, the loss of affordable working-class enclaves means ...
Roger Ballen smiles as he poses for a portrait sitting on a chair. PALOMA PALOMINO
... Roger Ballen’s newly opened Inside Out Centre for the Arts is different. Standing on Jan Smuts Avenue, in central ... in Johannesburg, as there is little public funding for the arts in South Africa , with this space sponsored by ... thing is,’ artist and photographer Ballen says, ‘fine arts, sculpture and even graffiti in South Africa are ...
Gifts and Books, an exhibition about giving at the Bodleian Library
... from the city council’s $6 billion investment in the arts. Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates, has ...
Elder Taharakau Stewart (in the middle with cane), is joined by other Māori people during a ceremony in Berlin, Germany on 29 April 2019. The event marked the handing back of the remains of ancestors which had been held as part of Charité – Berlin University of Medicine’s former anthropology collections. JÖRG CARSTENSEN/DPA/ALAMY
An anti-government protests in front of the general prosecutor’s headquarters in Moldova’s capital, Chișinău. DAN MORAR/SHUTTERSTOCK
... crowded basement of Chișinău’s National Museum of Fine Arts , Soviet-era bronze and aluminium castings by Claudia ...
Mohamad Hafez
... encouragement – and they are also wake-up calls. What arts projects are you currently involved in, and why? I’m ...
Photo: Siobhan Bradshaw
... ‘In Cuba I witnessed the great levelling ability of the arts, if education is funded properly,’ he tells me. ... Cuba’s approach, encouraging interest in sport and the arts from an early age – funding lessons for youngsters and ... in political and business circles of the benefits of the arts. These are all old arguments which we are losing. I ...
Artists and activists from BP or not BP? disrupt the BP Portrait Award in London, England, on 10 June 2019. MARK KERRISON/ALAMY
... with the oil giant BP, and the Perth and Darwin arts festivals in Australia will no longer be sponsored by ... Santos, respectively. Firms have spent decades sponsoring arts and culture in order to ‘artwash’ their brand, deter ... ending oil, gas and coal company partnerships at dozens of arts institutions in multiple countries, helping to reduce ...
Kanaval: A People’s History of Haiti in Six Chapters
... plantation system. Gordon, whose background is in arts and curation, says that some of these troupes have been ...

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