Depends on what kind of friends the Pinaults have I guess

would the tate staff not notice someone fiddling under their mac in the middle of a gallery?

If we're talking pieces seen on the streets during what might be considering the 'inception' of street art i'd think you'd have to included TheLondonPolice's Lad and maybe even Flying Fortress.

Barcelona 2001-03 you'd see them, D, Miss Van, Microbo everywhere. I'd put them above Eelus for example

Hope this still goes ahead

Really! They look perfect for Street Art and Graffiti shows ;D

Oil Painting Protest over BP sponsorship in Tate Modern Turbine Hall
Liberate Tate calls for footprint of art museum to be free from Big Oil

Tuesday (14 September) art activists from Liberate Tate staged a guerrilla art intervention in Tate Modern, covering the floor of the iconic Turbine Hall with dozens of litres of oil paint in protest at the museum taking sponsorship from BP.





The flash mob-style event was staged a day before a Tate Board of Trustees meeting. Liberate Tate are part of a growing public movement calling on Tate’s governing body to end its sponsorship agreement with the oil company. Tate’s Board of Trustees has decided to review the BP corporate sponsorship.

At 5pm, around 50 figures dressed in black entered the gallery each carrying a BP-branded oil paint tube. In a circle they placed the paint tubes on the floor and each stamped on one, spraying out dozens of litres of paint in a huge burst across the floor. The installation art work, ‘Crude’, was then signed ‘Liberate Tate’ and offered to Tate for its collection.

Blake Williams, a participant in the performance, said: “Ten years ago tobacco companies were seen as respectable partners for public institutions. The Gulf of Mexico oil spill has brought home to an even wider public that the impact of big oil companies like BP on the environment and the global climate makes them equally unethical for an art museum, especially one that purports to demonstrate leadership in response to climate change.”

Tate’s latest annual report (2009/10), released this month, claims “sustainability is a prime consideration throughout Tate’s work”. Tate reduced its energy use and overall carbon emissions last year and makes much of its partnership with the Carbon Trust and that it was a founding signatory to the national 10:10 campaign, launched at Tate Modern, aiming to reduce carbon emissions by 10% in 2010.

Liberate Tate said: “Tate has so far chosen to take a very narrow view of its footprint in relation to climate change and to not yet take into account its formal relationship with Big Oil. At a time when arts institutions wish to demonstrate how central the arts are in bringing social benefits to all and thus deserving of strong public funding, the museum must accept responsibility for its full impact in society.”

“Tate has a sponsor in BP that is engaged in socially and ecologically destructive activities. This is incompatible with Tate’s ethical guidelines, its stated vision in regard to sustainability and climate change, and for maintaining Tate’s reputation. In addition, its mission is undermined if visitors to Tate galleries cannot enjoy great art without the museum making them complicit in creating climate chaos. We call on the governing body to recognise this and end Tate’s relationship with BP.”

Earlier this year Liberate Tate issued an open invitation for artists, art lovers and other concerned members of the public to act to ensure that Tate ends its oil sponsorship by the end of 2011 ahead of Tate Modern’s expansion into it's cleaned out underground oil tanks.

get them to learn to tag at a young age

kids.tate.org.uk/games/street-art/

I like the new building, just hope that it doesn't distract from the symmetry of the river view of the existing building.
Tate modern is currently far too busy and any extension has to be welcomed. It's a pity they didn't buy up more of the nearby property for further extension.

Tate Street Art

www.TateStreetArt.com

What about the one in 08 ?


I cant see anything being inside until they finish the new Space.

The Tate yesterday filed an appeal to a court order that would require the museum to release information relating to its controversial sponsorship deal with British Petroleum (BP), Hyperallergic has learned. This development is the latest in an ongoing dispute between the Tate and anti-BP activists seeking to use Britain’s Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to shed light on the institution’s funding from the oil-and-gas giant. The original FOIA request, filed in December 2011 by activist Glen Tarman for board minutes and other internal documents connected with a renewal of BP’s sponsorship deal, resulted in delayed then redacted disclosures from the Tate on February 16, 2012.

hyperallergic.com/117854/tate-doesnt-want-to-disclose-details-of-bp-sponsorship/

The Tate modern is run by a bunch of tossers who who are up their own backsides and nothing but a butt buffing clique.

They never answer questions and never replied to any of mine when I asked them how much it actually cost to remove the Yellowism graffiti from the dodgy Rothko painting.

At the time it was scribbled on by Umanets, the tate said it would cost up to £200,000 to restore the painting which I find very hard to believe.

Yes oil companies and other such businesses sponser art and invest in art because it gives them a nice corporate image and they can rub shoulders with arty farty curators and directors.

  

www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/b041d67n/Goldies_Private_View_of_Matisse/

Watched this the other day, some brilliant work on show from Matisse and very passionate interpretation from Goldie!