From school strikers at the Royal Shakespeare Company to a Trojan horse at the British Museum, protests over oil sponsorship have gripped the arts
It’s a refusal to learn anything about a culture that could be obliterated
Activists dressed as Greek gods and goddesses drenched in oil
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‘Lande’, at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers, begets core questions about art and its display
Staff members have written in support of Ahdaf Soueif, the trustee who resigned over oil money, restitution silence and employment precarity
‘I was sad to resign; sad to believe that it was the most useful thing I could do,’ wrote Ahdaf Soueif
In further news: British Museum director defends BP sponsorship; David Zwirner to open in Paris
In further news: Tania Bruguera to launch investigative journalism initiative; Smithsonian won’t remove Sackler name
In further news: a spotlight on arts and oil sponsorship; Ai Weiwei to direct ‘Turandot’
The British Museum’s survey of Japanese comics plunges us into their strange, visionary wonderlands
Visitors to the contemporary art museum rose by 3.4% to almost 6 million
In further news: Radical Matriarchy protest lack of diversity at Washington’s National Gallery of Art; Met to return stolen ancient coffin to Egypt
In further news: calls to close tax loopholes for art-filled ‘freeports’; Elmgreen & Dragset memorial to gay Holocaust victims vandalized
In further news: New Museum workers vote to unionize; Amanda Schmitt appeals dismissal of Artforum suit
As the Easter Islanders demand that the British Museum return their statue, it’s time to reconsider the meaning of ‘global artworks’
Rereading Mark Fisher with the publication of his collected writings; Olivia Laing’s Crudo makes the NYT’s ‘100 Notable Books’
At the Royal Academy of Arts, an exhibition spans the histories of the Pacific
‘We are just a body. You, the British people, have our soul’
In further news: Syria’s National Museum in Damascus reopens; and a protest at the British Museum’s protest-themed show
