Flush with cash? A solid gold toilet is up for auction
NEW YORK (AP) — Art collectors have a chance Tuesday to buy one of the world's most lucrative latrines: a solid gold, fully functional toilet. The piece, by Maurizio Cattelan — the provocative Italian artist known for taping a banana to a wall — goes up for auction Tuesday evening at Sotheby's in New York. The starting bid will be the market value of the 101-kilogram (223-pound), 18-karat-gold work, currently about $10 million. Cattelan has said the piece, titled “America, ” you eat,...
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