Museums across Europe targeted by oil protestors
The British Museum confiscated items including bow ties and waistcoats from campaigners in London because it was “not aware…
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Beware the corporate sponsors
Can corporate sponsorship have a negative effect on a cultural organisation’s artistic value? Yuliya Shymko and Thomas Roule…
British Museum breached ethics code, claim protesters
Anti-oil campaigners are calling for the Museum’s sponsorship deal with BP to be reviewed following revelations that trustee…
BP extends sponsorship with leading cultural institutions
Campaigners warn that “art interventions and protests will go on” as a five-year deal worth £7.5m is announced.
BP exploits cultural sponsorship for influence, report claims
Anonymous interviews and emails obtained under Freedom of Information suggest the oil giant has some control over the creative out…
A broad funding base
Over £400k has to be raised every year to stage the Ageas Salisbury International Arts Festival. How do they do it? Toby Smi…
Unauthorised arts and climate festival planned in Tate Modern
A year before Tate is due to renew its sponsorship with BP, Platform London is curating a free, completely unauthorised festival i…
Lighting up London
Artichoke’s Lumiere light festival is hugely reliant on sponsorship. As it prepares to come to London for the first time, Sa…
Heads up for match funding
Match funding has received some bad press recently, but Carl Watt has seen it work wonders at encouraging business sponsorship of…
Knocking with intent
Want to attract support from local businesses? First you’ve got to learn to talk the talk, advises Jon Flinn.
The secrets of sponsorship
Is it possible for small, regional arts organisations to secure significant income through sponsorship? Heather Stewart …
What should Tate have done differently?
David Carrington explains what arts organisations seeking commercial support can learn from the recent Tate/BP sponsorship freedom…
How is business sponsorship performing?
Colin Tweedy calls for business sponsorship of the arts to be nurtured again, particularly outside London where private, philanthr…
DCMS gives go-ahead to UK City of Culture 2021
As the UK gears up to celebrate three ‘cities of culture’ between 2017 and 2023, questions still remain over how they…
Orchestra strikes sponsorship gold in China
A premium drinks producer will pay £500k for a five-year deal with Philharmonia Orchestra, involving artistic and cultural c…
Tate reveals oil sponsorship figures
Three years after a request under the Freedom of Information Act, Tate has responded to a Tribunal ruling that it must release som…
Sponsorship in the spotlight
Following the ruling that Tate should disclose the details of its BP sponsorship, Anna Galkina explains why arts organisations mus…
Tate ordered to disclose details of BP sponsorship
The Information Tribunal has given Tate 35 days to disclose the amount of money it received from BP between 1990 and 2006, but mor…
Our arts leaders can’t afford to forget politics
If ethical questions lead us to pick and choose what is right and wrong from an artistic perspective, or to judge the credentials…
Sponsorship revisited
Roberta Comunian argues that traditional views on the benefits of arts sponsorship to business have been far too limited, as demon…
“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 se…
Renewed calls for an end to oil sponsorship
The National Portrait Gallery has previously rejected tobacco money and campaigners are calling on it to be a trailblazer again fo…
Tate members to resign over oil sponsorship deal
Members Council refuses to engage with concerns about BP’s brand association.
Book review: Take the money and run?
Bethany Rex finds Platform’s guide to the ethics of business sponsorship in the arts provides a good starting point for deba…
