Researcher, composer and performer - for the arts, museums and ethics. Co-director of @Cult_Unstained, tweeting in a personal capacity. He/him.
Jan 27, 2023 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
No, Richard Morrison, it's not hypocrisy to end a fossil fuel sponsorship in 2023.
The Royal Opera House should have done it sooner.
And if you'd taken the time to join the dots, it would be obvious why... 🧵 1/x thetimes.co.uk/article/the-ro…
He writes that cultural orgs 'that benefited from money from the #Sackler family were right to erase their links'.
But not long ago, he called them 'hugely generous arts benefactors, but from a fortune partly derived from making addictive opioids.' 🧐2/x thetimes.co.uk/article/our-cu…
Jan 30, 2019 • 12 tweets • 5 min read
THREAD | The Editorial Board at the @FT have put together an op-ed claiming 'Corporate arts patrons deserve praise not blame' and that protests against unethical sponsors and donors are counterproductive. Here's some of the flaws in their argument... ft.com/content/583a31… 1/12
The terms 'business donors', 'private patrons' and 'corporate donors' are used interchangably but are fundamentally different in nature. Crucially, the protests cited are not 'anti-business' as the piece suggests, but anti-unethical/explotative businesses e.g. arms and oil 2/12
