With Trustee's Turn Against BP Sponsorship, Another Round of Protests Awaiting the Tate?

Last summer you might recall that, following the wake of the Gulf oil spill, a number of British museums became the target of protesters who chided those organizations for taking donations from British Petroleum. The National Portrait Gallery got hit, as did the British Museum. The Tate Britain perhaps received the largest brunt of the movement, with activists spilling oil both inside and outside of the museum. So apparently worrying were the protesters’ actions that Tony