Exhibitions in West London
Ready to extract carbon from the air. Image copyright Science Museum group
SAVING OUR PLANET: We re all trying to do our bit to reduce our carbon footprint, but how do we capture the carbon that s already out there? This free display brings together information and objects on how both forestry and technology can capture carbon including a mechanical tree that does a fantastic job of it, even though it looks nothing like a tree. There s a fun interactive (and contactless) piece where you can have a go at tackling thorny policy around reducing carbon emissions. There s even some vodka made from captured carbon although no samples, unfortunately. This small exhibition may not have too many eye-catching objects but it tackles a hugely important issue affecting all of our futures.
€1500 Caravaggio Found In Madrid Auction House
Old Master dealers Colnaghi gallery have agreed to coordinate the scholarly assessment, scientific analysis, and restoration of an Ecce Homo painting thought to be by Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio.
The work, titled The Crowning of Thorns, was due to go under the hammer at Ansorena auction house on 8 April with a guide price of €1,500. The painting is owned by the three children of Antonio Pérez de Castro, founder of Madrid’s IADE design school.
The oil on canvas depicting Christ being crowned with thorns was initially attributed to the “circle” of the 17th-century Spanish painter José de Ribera. The painting, which has been in the family of the Pé rez de Castro Méndez for centuries, was set to be sold at auction in Madrid before the family was alerted of its possible reattribution. The family subsequently withdrew the work from auction. The Ministry of Culture has issued an exportation block of the painting from S
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April 27, 2021
A visitor takes a photo of a recreation of The Walled Off Hotel room at the Banksy: Genius or Vandal? exhibition at Asobuild on March 27, 2020 in Yokohama, Japan. (Photo by Christopher Jue/Getty Images)
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“Every religion has Nuns and Monks,” Ugo Rondinone remarks as we finish up bowls of miso soup. We are in my Noho loft, enjoying an early Sunday supper. Getting back to Ugo’s upcoming show “Nuns & Monks” opening at the Gladstone Gallery in Chelsea, and his current show spread over two of Sadie Coles HQ in London, I ask him about the materials. “Stones have been a presence and recurring material and symbolism in my art.” These sixteen-foot cloaked figures join the artists’ tribe of extraordinary stone sculptures “Human Nature” that graced Rockefeller Center in 2013 and the elemental eight-foot moon rise masks of 2005-2006.