Culture Beyond Oil at the British Museum

Five members of the art activist group Culture Beyond Oil poured non-toxic black oil around the British Museum's world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP's sponsorship of the museum.

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• british
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• tate
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• oil

[gu1nnea]

I live in Florida....thank you for your courage in making this statement at the British

Museum. If you nay sayers want to see pathetic...please come to my beach and

view the devastation....THAT is pathetic.

[jupiatan]

pathetic smug demo by fools.

[bloodbathrich]

Was an interesting protest, i agree everyone has right to protest, however this had the potential for trouble.

Pouring liquid over stone floor area where Hundreds of school children pass through to get to coaches could have caused an accident.

Gallery had to close down which is the main through point for the centre of the museum which if a fire alarm had gone off would have caused major blockage and saftey concern.

And yes, if culture beyond oil would match donations please step up :)

[knitterbird]

Have "Culture Beyond Oil" made donations to all the galleries & museums to cover the costs of clearing up all this mess to their premises. Are "Culture Beyond Oil" also going to donate or raise enough money to fill the funding gap they are demanding the galleries must endure?

Without that these protests are not art or performance, they nothing but short sighted, naive and destructive tantrums.

[phemefilms]

Brilliant, beautiful protest. Less well choreographed arm flapping response from the Museum.

[charliethebloody]

Hmm, lets protest against one form of destruction by... damaging something else. That makes sense. However bad BP may be, museums are in desperate need of funding, there have recently been widely publicised government cuts and without funding from companies such as BP institutions like the British Museum and the Tate simply couldn't function. Unfortunately it tends to be the morally dubious companies that have the money, but you can't take your anger out on the charities they support.

[benzoylation]

@hmvkid It wasn't either. They obviously had to clean up the spill. We have 14 days or so to see if the 2nd cap works.

[classicscrap1]

BP has polluted the world

[TheFURGAN]

i work at the BM , while i support your right to protest this was a misguided and seeing as you all wore veils cowardly attack.

unless you can prove BP deliberatly caused the pipeline to break and polute the enviroment and in doing so make there share price drop like a stone you will not have my support or respect.

[jongular152]

I also work at the BM, and if i had been there you never would have got anywhere near that room, You are just a bunch of sad morons!