It was a bold bowl move. Orlando-based Ripley Entertainment has purchased a 18-karat gold toilet at auction for $12.1 million ...

Golden toilet’s new owner explains why they made £9.3m purchase - The first casting was stolen by thieves from Blenheim ...

You’ve got to hand it to the 65-year-old Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan: he has a knack for producing pieces that dominate ...

Visitors thankfully weren’t permitted to actually use the toilet while it was on display, though users have been invited to ...

An 18-karat gold working toilet sculpture titled "America" by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan sold Tuesday evening for a ...

One of the world’s most lucrative latrines, a solid gold, fully functional toilet, is up for auction Tuesday evening in New ...

A functional, 18-karat gold toilet from the same artist behind the viral duct-taped banana just sold for $12.1 million with ...

America is one of two iterations of Cattelan’s gilded latrine. The first one popped up in 2016 at the Guggenheim in New York City, where visitors were invited to use the sculpture. After becoming an ...

In an auction first, the starting bid (likely to be around $10 million) will be determined by the price of the 100-kilogram work's weight in gold.

“Whatever you eat, a $200 lunch or a $2 hot dog, the results are the same, toilet-wise,” he once said. Sotheby’s, for its ...

Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art (2025), Duchamp was asking, “Why couldn’t art be a seamless, enveloping, immersive ...

In an industrial building in Brooklyn last weekend, two men and a woman sat on folding chairs in a narrow, low-ceilinged room, blasting away with high-calibre firearms at three large gold-plated ...