Artist hopes gold toilet taken by `Robin Hood` types
(Artdaily.org)

The artist whose solid gold toilet was stolen from Britain`s Blenheim Palace said he hoped it had been taken in a `Robin Hood-inspired action`, as police scrambled Sunday to locate it. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan told the New York Times that when he first heard news of Saturday`s pre-dawn theft of his fully-functioning work `America`, he thought it was a prank. `Who`s so stupid to steal a toilet? I had forgotten for a second that it was made out of gold,` he said, adding: `I wish it was a prank.` Cattelan has described the 18-carat gold work, famously once offered on loan to US President Donald Trump, as `one-percent art for the 99 percent`. `I hope it still is. I want to be positive and think the robbery is a kind of Robin Hood-inspired action,` he said, referring to the character of English folklore who stole from the rich to give