Maurizio Cattelan's working gold loo at the New York museum is a pungent symbol of the extreme price of art objects, and our love of looking at them While the poor get poorer, the rich even get to do their crap on a golden toilet. No, this is not the latest speech by Bernie Sanders, driven to Swiftian scatology by his defeat in the New York primary. It is a trenchant comment on wealth and luxury on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Or Upper East Backside.
The Guggenheim's monstrous golden toilet sums up the obscene art world
The Guardian - 20 Apr 2016 15:57
Maurizio Cattelan's working gold loo at the New York museum is a pungent symbol of the extreme price of art objects, and our love of looking at them While the poor get poorer, the rich even get to do their crap on a golden toilet. No, this is not the latest speech by Bernie Sanders, driven to Swiftian scatology by his defeat in the New York primary. It is a trenchant comment on wealth and luxury on Manhattan's Upper East Side. Or Upper East Backside.
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