Anti-BP Activists Stage Nude Lie-In, Pour Oil at Tate Britain

A naked youth had oil poured over him inside Tate Britain today in an artist-led demonstration against oil company BP Plc’s sponsorship of Tate.

The performance marked the first anniversary of BP’s Deepwater Horizon oil-rig explosion in the Gulf of Mexico, the U.S.’s worst-ever oil spill. BP is a longstanding sponsor of Tate Britain, the British Museum, the Royal Opera House and the National Portrait Gallery, and has said it will maintain those London sponsorships, which cost it a total of more than 1 million pounds ($1.6 million) a year.