The stolen golden toilet: the perfect punchline to an 18-carat joke
(The Guardian Culture News)

Maurizio Cattelan is right to enjoy the loss of his fully-functioning conceptual wonder. It makes his comment on art, money and Trumpian desire even more brilliantIt feels like a huge honour to have been, quite possibly, one of the last people to pee in Maurizio Cattelan´s golden toilet. If his artwork, the solid gold lav stolen from Blenheim Palace on Friday night, is not recovered soon, it may never be seen again. For it seems unlikely this crime was commissioned by an anally obsessed collector or planned by gangsters to use the loo as underworld collateral. `Don Corleone, to mark our deal, please accept this golden toilet.` Let´s face it, the thieves stole Cattelan´s conceptual wonder for the metal it is made of. Related: Hitler in Churchill`s birthplace more shocking than the golden toilet - Maurizio Cattelan review Continue reading...