# Maurizio Cattelan
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maurizio cattelan (born 21 September 1960) is an Italian artist. Known primarily for his hyperrealistic sculptures and installations, Cattelan's practice also includes curating and publishing. His satirical approach to art has resulted in him being frequently labelled as a joker or prankster of the art world.
The Golden Toilet
Blenheim Palace, Oxfordshire. 14 September 2019. Five hours after Maurizio Cattelan's solid-gold artwork "America" — a fully functional eighteen-carat gold toilet, valued at £4.8 million — has opened to the public, a small team breaks in, rips the piece from the wall with the water still running, a…
Golden Helmet, Cattelan Confessions & Dino Sales | Spill The Art Tea ft. Kiira Benz | Ep. 83
This week on Spill The Art Tea, Kiira Benz joins Eamonn and Josh for a lineup that has everything: stolen treasure returned home, Maurizio Cattelan turning confession into audience participation, Michelangelo landing in a New Jersey mall, Pharrell selling a Triceratops online for $5.5 million, and …
Louvre Heist Film, Banana Theft & Girlboss Fish | Spill The Art Tea ft. Katherine Klimitas | Ep. 87
This week on Spill The Art Tea, Katherine Klimitas joins us for a lineup that swings from true-crime cinema to textile history to conceptual fruit nonsense and a fish species that has apparently been ignoring men for 100,000 years.
We’re talking about the Louvre jewel robbery getting the film treat…
Doing Public Art His Own Way: Aaron T Stephan
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Art Basel Week Begins; South Asian Art Sets a £18.9M Record; Magnificent Jewels Hits $49.7M
June 16: Art Basel Week Begins; South Asian Art Sets a £18.9M Record; Magnificent Jewels Hits $49.7MThis week the center of gravity shifts to Switzerland as Art Basel opens, against a striking run of results in London: a $49.7M jewels sale, a $20M+ design sale, and a fresh record for South Asian ar…
Pop Art, Then and Now at the Guggenheim
Pop art and New York share a special relationship. The Guggenheim was particularly important to the evolution of the genre in the city, when a British curator organized the first museum presentation of Pop art in New York in 1963. This summer, the Guggenheim is exploring the Pop art in its collecti…
Katriina Campitelli: What a Public Art Curator Actually Does
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He Stole a $3 Million Dollar Toilet // The Golden Toilet Heist
In the early morning hours of September 14, 2019, a bizarre art heist took place at Blenheim Palace in Oxfordshire, England, when a gang of thieves stole a fully functional, 18-karat solid gold toilet worth millions. Titled America, the 216-pound sculpture was created by Italian conceptual artist M…
Monuments at Risk, Museums Under Fire
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Portrait of Bayeux Tapestry exhibition sponsor goes on view at British Museum amid scrutiny over ties to IDF
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Episode 29: Maurizio Cattelan's Banana + Gustave Fayet, the Forgotten Gauguin Collector
This summer, someone walked off with a banana taped to a museum wall in Metz, and the museum filed a legal complaint. Zahra traces it back to Maurizio Cattelan, the self-taught Italian behind the solid-gold toilet, the Pope struck by a meteorite and a banana that sold for $6.2 million. She explains…
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