Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s Bathtub

Hawai’i at the British Museum, a Venice palazzo for sale, Joseph Beuys’s Bathtub

Published: January 16, 2026

Duration: 1:08:58

As 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 also hear about the museum’s fresh approach to the stewardship of its collection of Hawaiian objects and materials. In Venice, one of the most famous palazzi on the Grand Canal, the Ca’ Dario, is up for sale and we discuss the building, its history and its supposed curse with the founder of The Art Newspaper and former chair of the Venice in Peril charity, Anna Somers Cocks. And this episode’...