Art Activists Spill Oil at Iconic British Museum in Protest at BP Sponsorship

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. The British Museum, and The Tate receive money from BP on an annual basis. - Photo: Amy Scaife

LONDON.- Five members of the art activist group

‘Culture Beyond Oil’ today poured non-toxic black oil around the British

Museum’s world famous Easter Island sculpture, in protest at BP’s
sponsorship of
the museum. The group, inspired by Liberate Tate’s intervention at Tate
Britain
earlier this month, said it had deliberately chosen the giant statue of a
human
head because it represents the way in which civilizations once
considered
invincible can collapse in a short period of time. The activists were
careful
not to pour oil on the sculpture itself, which is seated on a modern
stone
plinth.

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