Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts

Notes

Published on the fifth anniversary of the BP Deepwater Horizon disaster, Artwash is an intervention into the unsavoury role of the Big Oil company’s sponsorship of the arts in Britain.

Artist / Author Mel Evans
Publisher Pluto Press
ISBN 978-0745335889
Reference P2872
Date 2015
Type Publication

Keywords

activism Arctic Arts Council BP British Museum campaign Chevron corporate cultural intervention curating ecology environment ethics ExxonMobil grassroots Greenpeace Gulf of Mexico spill health human rights Liberate Tate museum National Gallery oil industry performance philanthropy political PR Shell Southbank Centre sponsorship Tate UK USA visual art

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