I don’t know what the Trumps were thinking when they asked the Guggenheim to lend them a Van Gogh painting for their private quarters in the White House. Instead, the Trumps were offered another gold thing, Maurizio Cattelan’s America, a 2016 interactive artwork consisting of a solid gold toilet that Guggenheim visitors are actually using. You see a gold toilet, Cattelan sees America as it is right now, and he’s not wrong in this new Gilded Age. Perhaps he meant “to the toilet.” Artists are human, you know. They’re all sitting on a gold toilet when a porcelain one would do just as well.

Source: thestar January 29, 2018 05:03 UTC