Arts & Culture
British Museum and British Petroleum are bedfellows again
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The British Museum has announced a new £50 million partnership with the oil company BP after an apparent break between the two institutions earlier this year.
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The British Museum has announced a new £50 million partnership with the oil company BP after an apparent break between the two institutions earlier this year.
Weekend Editor Eric O. Scott critiques the way philanthropy structures our ideas about the pagan past to match the priorities of museum mega-donors.
Documents obtained through a freedom of information request indicate that the British Museum has ended its 27-year-long relationship with the oil company BP after years of campaigning by climate change activists.
TWH – Now that the season has turned and we are nearing the end of the 2017, we look back, one last time, to review this historic year. What happened? What didn’t happen? What events shaped our thoughts and guided our actions? In our collective worlds, both big and small, what were the major discussions?