This week, our contemporary art correspondent Louisa Buck visits the exhibition Testament at Goldsmiths CCA in London, where 47 artists have been invited to make proposals that ponder the idea of tearing down and erecting monuments and what it might mean to rethink them. Louisa talks to Sarah McCrory, the director of Goldsmiths CCA, and to Adham Faramawy, one of the artists in the show.
Installation view of Testament (until 3 April) at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art Image: courtesy of Goldsmiths CCA. Photo: Rob Harris.
In Rome, a villa with ceiling paintings by Caravaggio and Guercino with a price tag of €471m failed to attract any bids. The Art Newspaper’s founder-editor Anna Somers Cocks, who’s based in Turin, tells us why.
Caravaggio, Jupiter, Neptune and Pluto (around 1597, detail) in the collection of the Villa Aurora.
And in this episode’s Work of the Week, the artist Michael Armitage tells us about Sane Wadu’s painting Black Moses (1993), a work in Wadu’s retrospective at the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute in Kenya, co-founded by Armitage, which opened last week.
Sane Wadu, Black Moses (1993) © Courtesy of the Nairobi Contemporary Art Institute. Photo © James Muriuki and Sane Wadu
The Week in Art podcast byThe Art Newspaper is available every Friday on our website and all the usual places where you find podcasts. This podcast is sponsored by Christie's.