Tuesday, August 18, 2015
Crude Behavior: How Big Oil Tries to 'Artwash' Itself
As British Petroleum’s Deepwater Horizon oil rig spewed enough crude into the Gulf of Mexico to be seen from space in late April 2010, the Tate Britain
saw fit to celebrate their long-standing sponsorship by BP at their
annual summer party. While oil stuck to shorelines and wildlife, the
black mark of ecological destruction failed to stick to BP, at least for
that night. Artist-activists Mel Evans and Anna Feigenbaum and the Liberate Tate crew crashed that party with performance art protesting both the polluters and those who associated with them. Now, five years later, Evans revisits the relationship between “Big Oil” and “Big Art” in Artwash: Big Oil and the Arts.
Evans accuses Big Oil of focusing more on cleaning up their image than
their business’ collateral damage and charges cultural institutions that
take Big Oil sponsorship money as accomplices to that crime. Please come over to Picture This at Big Think to read more of "Crude Behavior: How Big Oil Tries to 'Artwash' Itself."
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Great post with very useful information to all thanks for sharing with all of us. I like it very much.
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I love when you mix music with art. I listen to music when working on my paintings, it really sets the mood. Also if you're looking for some inspiring art slogans I found some good ones i want to share: Art Slogans
You have explained very well the business relationships and what kind of curves they might experience.
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