Because the British Museum opens Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans, Ben Luke takes a tour of the exhibition with the museum’s head of Oceania, Alice Christophe. We additionally hear concerning the museum’s contemporary method to the stewardship of its assortment of Hawaiian objects and supplies.
A picture of the god Kū on the entrance to the Hawaiʻi: a kingdom crossing oceans exhibition
© The Trustees of the British Museum. Photograph: MKH
In Venice, one of the well-known palazzi on the Grand Canal, the Ca’ Dario, is up on the market. We talk about the constructing, its historical past and its supposed “curse” with the founding father of The Artwork Newspaper and former chair of the Venice in Peril charity, Anna Somers Cocks.
Ca’ Dario in Venice
Photograph: Christie’s Worldwide Actual Property
And this episode’s Work of the Week is Bathtub (1961-87), a late work made by Joseph Beuys, solid in bronze after his loss of life in 1986. It’s on the centre of a brand new present of Beuys’s work on the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London. Luke speaks to Thaddaeus Ropac concerning the sculpture and its lengthy journey to completion.
Joseph Beuys, Badewanne (Bathtub) (1961-1987)
Photograph: Ulrich Ghezzi
