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05-05-2019, 03:55 PM
Gold toilet that Guggenheim offered to Trump to be displayed at home where Churchill was born
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See more at the link https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/442212-gold-toilet-that-guggenheim-offered-to-trump-will-be-displayed
Excerpt:
A golden toilet titled "America" designed by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan will be housed at Winston Churchill’s birthplace, according (https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/blenheim-palace-gold-toilet-scli-intl-gbr/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-05-05T19%3A33%3A01&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNNi) to CNN.
The artwork earned viral fame after New York's Guggenheim museum offered it to President Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump) instead of a famous painting he had requested for the White House.
The commode, made of solid 18-karat gold, will be installed at Blenheim Palace near Oxford, UK, the Duke of Marlborough’s residence. It will be displayed in a room adjacent to the one where the legendary British statesman was born, as part of an exhibition by Cattelan, according to the report.
"I am constantly inspired by the past and how nothing has really changed, so to show my work at Blenheim Palace -- a place full of history and humanity -- is significant to me," Cattelan said in a statement, according to the news outlet.
Catellan has said that the toilet is intended as a commentary on excess wealth, telling the Washington Post in 2018 that “whatever you eat, a two-hundred-dollar lunch or a two-dollar hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise.”
The exhibition is set to run from September 12 to October 27.
25922
See more at the link https://thehill.com/blogs/in-the-know/in-the-know/442212-gold-toilet-that-guggenheim-offered-to-trump-will-be-displayed
Excerpt:
A golden toilet titled "America" designed by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan will be housed at Winston Churchill’s birthplace, according (https://edition.cnn.com/style/article/blenheim-palace-gold-toilet-scli-intl-gbr/index.html?utm_medium=social&utm_content=2019-05-05T19%3A33%3A01&utm_term=link&utm_source=twCNNi) to CNN.
The artwork earned viral fame after New York's Guggenheim museum offered it to President Trump (https://thehill.com/people/donald-trump) instead of a famous painting he had requested for the White House.
The commode, made of solid 18-karat gold, will be installed at Blenheim Palace near Oxford, UK, the Duke of Marlborough’s residence. It will be displayed in a room adjacent to the one where the legendary British statesman was born, as part of an exhibition by Cattelan, according to the report.
"I am constantly inspired by the past and how nothing has really changed, so to show my work at Blenheim Palace -- a place full of history and humanity -- is significant to me," Cattelan said in a statement, according to the news outlet.
Catellan has said that the toilet is intended as a commentary on excess wealth, telling the Washington Post in 2018 that “whatever you eat, a two-hundred-dollar lunch or a two-dollar hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise.”
The exhibition is set to run from September 12 to October 27.