Guggenheim Museum Offers Used, Solid-Gold Toilet to the Trumps
A fully functioning solid gold toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.
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New York (AP) -- Donald and Melania Trump wanted to borrow a Van Gogh painting from a New York museum for their White House private quarters. Instead, The Washington Post reports , the Guggenheim Museum's chief curator came up with a pointedly satirical counter-offer: a working solid-gold toilet made by an Italian artist.
The first couple had asked for Van Gogh's "Landscape With Snow," featuring a man and his dog.