The Gold Toilet

[JuliefromOhio]

The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House.

The Guggenheim said no and offered this instead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-white-house-wanted-a-van-gogh-the-guggenheim-offered-a-used-solid-gold-toilet/2018/01/25/38d574fc-0154-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html

 

[marvin martian]

This is what's taking up space in Bezos' blog today? LOL

 

[Addy]

The Trumps asked to borrow a Van Gogh for the White House.

The Guggenheim said no and offered this instead.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-white-house-wanted-a-van-gogh-the-guggenheim-offered-a-used-solid-gold-toilet/2018/01/25/38d574fc-0154-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html

Fitting satire for such a piece... and those with love of glitz only the very wealthy with money to burn would consider buying.
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The curator's alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled "America" that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.

Cattelan has also suggested that he had in mind the wealth that permeates aspects of society, describing the golden toilet "as 1 percent art for the 99 percent."

"Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise," he has said.