In an interview in the Observer newspaper, Balshaw also discussed the controversy around Tate Britain's Hogarth show, which one art critic described as "wokeish drivel"

Minutes from trustee meetings dating back to spring of 2023 chronicle the internal agonising before the energy giant’s sponsorship was ultimately accepted

An open letter urges museum to follow net zero carbon pledge and fully separate from oil giant, which recently recorded $2.6bn in quarterly profit

The museum has been under pressure for more than a decade to break off its affiliation with the oil and gas corporation

Plight of British-Egyptian Alaa Abd El-Fattah, currently on hunger strike, is focal point of protest as hieroglyphs exhibition opens

Temperatures might now be cooling, but tensions around the London institution’s ties to the oil giant are reaching boiling point

Spokeswoman for the oil company says it is looking at new ways to best use its resources in order to become net-zero by 2050

BP or not BP demonstrated against the museum's partnership with the oil giant over the weekend

Archaeologists and museum professionals "urge" institution to cut ties with British Petroleum company

Plus, Michael Landy's exhibition at Firstsite and artist Shahzia Sikander on a manuscript miniature

Fuel company's decision to withdraw from the BP Portrait Award judging panel was a missed opportunity to end sponsorship relationship, artist believes

Decision by London's British Museum and Science Museum to continue accepting sponsorship from fossil fuel companies risks alienating the public they serve

Organisers of the three-day action, the group BP or not BP?, called it the "largest protest in the history of the museum"

Planned show seeks to raise awareness of climate change, but London museum dogged by controversy over partnership with oil and gas giant

We look back at the major events that made the headlines this year

We talk about the myth and reality of Troy presented in the British Museum's show and to an activist about ongoing protests relating to fossil-fuel companies' sponsorship of the arts. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793.

Members of the climate activist group BP or not BP? blocked entry to the museum's show dressed as statues based on Greek mythology

Museums officials say that the association with the oil company is at odds with a "responsibility to do all we can to address the climate emergency"

We find out how mounting public scrutiny of private money could affect the bottom line of London's National Portrait Gallery, the British Museum, the Victoria and Albert Museum, the National Gallery and the Tate

The oil company will support one exhibition at the museum next year, but not a show dedicated to the people of the Arctic

The Trojan antiquities went to Berlin after the London museum rejected an offer to acquire them

Protests about the gallery’s lack of transparency concerning the energy company's sponsorship miss the point of how big business and the arts interact