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Joseph Beuys’s ‘Bathtub’ The Week in Art

16 Janvier 2026
This episode’s Work of the Week is Bathtub (1961-87), a late work made by Joseph Beuys, cast in bronze after his death in 1986. It is at the centre of a new show of Beuys’s work at the Thaddaeus Ropac gallery in London. Ben Luke speaks to Thaddaeus Ropac about the sculpture and its long journey to completion.
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