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Why BP has no place in our arts

Why are the national portrait gallery allowing a corporate criminal to paint its logo over their walls?

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Deepwater Horizon, Justin Stumberg, Public Domain.

BP is the world’s largest corporate criminal. It has been fined over $20bn dollars for the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, and yet continues to explore ever-riskier, and ever-dirtier, fossil-fuels. BP is implicated in human rights abuses, mass ecosystem destruction and, of course, contributing to runaway climate change.