As Ukraine Remains Under Siege, Tate Faces Calls to Divest from Russian Philanthropy

With Ukraine under siege from Moscow, Tate is facing calls to cut ties with Kremlin-linked billionaire Viktor Vekselberg, a patron of the London institution and a target of U.S. sanctions since 2008. Vekselberg, the founder of a Russian energy conglomerate associated with Vladimir Putin, is an honorary member of the Tate Foundation, the gallery confirmed to the Guardian.
“We need to use every single sanction available to us: financial, cultural and sporting. We can’t be the generatio