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Artist stages intervention at Shell-sponsored climate exhibition
Darren Cullen's 'Hell' logo adorned placards installed at the exhibition [Darren Cullen / Twitter]

Artist Darren Cullen challenged an exhibition sponsored by Shell at London’s Science Museum by staging an “impromptu intervention” on Friday.

Mr Cullen, who goes by the alias Spelling Mistakes Cost Lives, installed works at the Our Future Planet exhibition, satirising the oil giant’s messaging through guerilla-style “subvertising.”

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