Among its many lively claims to a place in history, the summer of 2024 will surely come to be known as the one that finally killed corporate sponsorship of the arts.
Recently a group of literary festivals divested themselves of Baillie Gifford, a company that had helped fund them for decades, for the crime of being some two per cent invested in businesses related to fossil fuels. And now South Kensington’s Science Museum has sacked a big sponsor of its own: Equinor, a Norwegian oil company.
