2024-12-31T01:20:54-05:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/149941664/the-guggenheim-will-install-a-fully-functioning-solid-gold-toilet Paul Petrunia 2016-04-20T22:17:00-04:00 >2019-01-05T12:31:03-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/cd/cdf6a6fed1f6af62448f295136a7047a?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>... instead of its standard Kohler toilet, it will have a solid 18-karat-gold working replica of one, a preposterously scatological apotheosis of wealth whose form is completed in its function: You could go into the restroom just to bask in its glow, Mr. Cattelan said, but it becomes an artwork only with someone sitting on it or standing over it, answering nature&rsquo;s call.</p></em><br /><br /><p>Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian artist who famously retired five years ago, has returned with a solid gold (and fully functioning) toilet for the Guggenheim Museum. Perfectly paired with the late Tobias Wong's <a href="http://www.citizen-citizen.com/collections/all/products/gold-pills" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Gold Pills</a>.&nbsp;</p> https://archinect.com/news/article/31597439/nothing-says-christmas-like-a-bunch-of-dead-animals-suspended-over-an-orchestra Paul Petrunia 2011-12-20T11:59:00-05:00 >2018-01-30T06:16:04-05:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/xc/xckomqo2yn8i2mbt.jpg?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><p> Archinect member <a href="http://archinect.com/updates" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Ricardo Soares has shared with us</a> a video he captured on his smart phone last night in NYC's Guggenheim museum. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maurizio_Cattelan" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Maurizio Cattelan</a>'s installation <em>All</em>, which I'm quite fond of, personally, is seen suspended from the oculus of the rotunda above the orchestra.</p>