Does Tate really need to take BP’s sponsorhip money?

The oil giant has been revealed to give an average of £245,000 a year to Tate. But is that worth all the bother the deal has got the galleries into?Walk through Tate Britain and it is impossible not to come across BP. The oil firm sponsors all the main galleries and individual artist displays, whether that is Henry Moore, JMW Turner or the brightly coloured fibreglass sculptures by Philip King that currently fill the central galleries. Even the 19th-century radical William Hazlitt is