World of the Bizarre

Museum invites visitors to use gold toilet

By T.K. Randall
September 16, 2016

Image: AI-generated (Midjourney) The brainchild of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, this solid gold lavatory is in full working order and can be found in the public restrooms of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City.

Gold toilet made by artist installed in NYC's Guggenheim museum bathroom for public use https://t.co/tTwXb8sOBz pic.twitter.com/RNtcrCuGPh

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Incredibly, the artist is quite happy for anyone to walk in off the street and make full use of it."Cattelan intends visitors to use the toilet just as they would any other facility in the building," the museum wrote on its blog.

"In a gallery environment where visitors are constantly being told, 'don't touch,' this is an extraordinary opportunity to spend time completely alone with a work of art by a leading contemporary artist."

The estimated value of the golden lavatory is somewhere between $1.5 and $2.5 million.

Source: Huffington Post

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