NO OIL PAINTING

Culture Beyond Oil campaigners poured molasses over an Easter Island statue in the British Museum to protest against its sponsorship deal with BP. The group said in a statement that they chose the object because it “represents the way in which civilisations once considered invincible can collapse in a short period of time”. Three members of the group wore death masks as they seemingly sleepwalked to the statue last Tuesday (13th) and drenched it with the non-toxic black slick out of decanters tarnished with BP’s logo.

Last month saw a similar slick action take place in the Tate Britain whose summertime soiree got disrupted with oil and feathers. Not forgetting the Tate Modern getting gatecrashed in May by dozens of dead fish and oil-soaked birds hanging from huge black balloons.

* See http://just-do-it.org.uk/oil-spill-at-the-british-museum