Sponsorship
‘Don’t fudge the facts’: campaigners call on Science Museum to go further after cutting ties with oil giant Equinor
Questions have been raised about the UK museum’s decision to retain sponsorship from BP, in light of data relating to its alignment with the goals of the Paris Climate Agreement
National Galleries of Scotland will continue to take sponsorship from Baillie Gifford despite protests over ties with fossil fuel industry and Israel
The asset management company ended its sponsorship of nine book festivals after campaign groups protested against their involvement
Maria Balshaw on the roles of museums today and what Tate’s sponsorship red line is
The Tate director discusses her new book about art institutions and their challenges in the 21st century
Cash-strapped museums struggle with ‘moral reckoning’ over sponsors
The Israel-Gaza war has escalated campaigns against arts funders deemed to be problematic
'We need strong leaders to stand up for the future of UK arts funding'
Hit by austerity cuts and activist boycotts, who is standing up for the arts?
UBS and Art Basel mark 30th anniversary of their collaboration
As the milestone is celebrated with a joint commission, protestors attack UBS’s record on fossil-fuel investment
Tate director Maria Balshaw criticises British Museum’s sponsorship deal with BP
In an interview in the Observer newspaper, Balshaw also discussed the controversy around Tate Britain's Hogarth show, which one art critic described as "wokeish drivel"
How radical transparency saved a US museum
Kate Casprowiak Scher, the Bellevue Arts Museum’s new permanent director, explains that candour about the institution’s finances helped bring the kunsthalle in suburban Seattle back from the brink
British Museum's long-awaited masterplan includes record £50m BP deal
The controversial ten-year agreement with the oil and gas company will contribute towards the institution's ambitious refurbishment plans
Frieze to sponsor next British pavilion at Venice Biennale
This is first time an art fair has funded a national exhibition at the Biennale
Science Museum in London criticised for promoting oil giant backer
The institution held a “Meet the Funder” event shortly after Equinor got approval to develop the Rosebank field
Law firm sponsor for National Portrait Gallery prize sparks controversy
Herbert Smith Freehills, which runs an "oil and gas" division, replaces BP
Fashion brand Stone Island to offer bursaries for emerging galleries at Frieze
Exhibitors in the Focus section of the art fairs can receive up to 30% off stand costs through the new partnership
UBS completes takeover of Credit Suisse—but what will happen to the bank's art world sponsorships?
Credit Suisse’s current benefactors include Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunstmuseum Basel and the National Gallery in London
The British Museum and BP's sponsorship deal will end after 27 years
The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation
Art market wobble: what happens if banks go bust?
Plus, hip hop in Baltimore and Juan de Pareja, the artist enslaved by Velázquez
Credit Suisse’s art partnerships up in the air after emergency UBS takeover
With a major art collection and multiple museum sponsorship deals, the collapse of the defunct Swiss bank is likely to have ramifications for the art world
Protestors at British Museum demand release of writer imprisoned in Egypt
Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens
London's Victoria and Albert museum announces it will 'no longer carry the Sackler name'
Institution cuts ties with the family behind the highly addictive drug Oxycontin
Pressure on British Museum to ditch BP mounts following UK's record summer heatwave
Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point
Abramovich down, Zabludowicz no change: Sunday Times Rich List reveals art world fortunes
Tate sponsor Leonard Blavatnik takes top art spot
London's National Gallery drops disgraced Sackler family name from its walls—will the V&A follow suit?
Victoria and Albert Museum is last major UK institution to retain the donors' name on its building, despite settlement agreement allowing its removal
National Portrait Gallery in London ends BP sponsorship after 30 years
Spokeswoman for the oil company says it is looking at new ways to best use its resources in order to become net-zero by 2050
London's Serpentine Galleries finally removes Sackler name from building, replacing it with North
Institution rebranded to Serpentine North last spring, but the controversial family name remained above the gallery entrance
Climate scientist stands down as adviser to London's Science Museum over fossil fuel sponsorship
Chris Rapley, a professor of climate science at University College London, disagrees with the museum's "ongoing willingness to accept oil and gas company sponsorship"
What happens when Instagram sponsors a mega museum?
Instagram is sponsoring the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Met Gala for the first time this year. Could this be a marriage made in heaven?
Should the Science Museum stop taking money from oil companies?
Plus, Michael Landy's exhibition at Firstsite and artist Shahzia Sikander on a manuscript miniature
Anti-Shell sleepover protest at London's Science Museum ends with police threatening to arrest demonstrators
Youth climate activists claim that the "museum would rather have kids arrested than drop their polluting sponsors"
After staunch criticism, Science Museum defends oil company Shell’s sponsorship of its climate exhibition
Director Ian Blatchford says that the Science Museum Group "retains editorial control" over London show