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The Latest Breaking News from Maurizio Cattelan

Golden toilet’s new owner explains why they made £9.3m purchase

The first casting was stolen by thieves from Blenheim Palace in 2019

The Independent UK

Ripley’s ‘flush with excitement’ after buying gold toilet worth £9.3m

The first casting was stolen from Blenheim Palace in 2019.

Evening Standard

Solid gold toilet sells for $12 million at auction

Maurizio Cattelan’s fully functional gold toilet titled “America” sold for $12.1 million at a Sotheby’s auction in New York.

Euronews

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Bidding begins at $10 million. How much will this solid gold toilet sell for?

Owned by an unnamed collector, it's one of two such toilets that Cattelan created in 2016.

The Independent UK

Solid gold toilet worth $10 million set to go under the hammer

The golden toilet weighs 101.2 kilograms

The Independent UK

No Chardins? No Leonardos? We’re lucky the Louvre raiders had dreadful taste in art

The philistine thieves skipped the museum’s real treasures in favour of dull royal knick-knacks. Was the French interior minister serious when he talked about their ‘immeasurable heritage value’?

The Guardian - UK

Why is Scandinavia’s largest international art fair going bananas for Thyra Hilden’s ‘Equal Satire’?

A new banana-centric artwork by Danish artist Thyra Hilden has been exhibited and sold at Copenhagen’s Enter Art Fair. Here's why it has been one of the standouts of this year's edition.

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Art or a convenient snack? Someone ate Cattelan’s 'Comedian' banana (again)

A banana duct-taped to a museum wall – ‘Comedian’, a conceptual artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan – has once again been eaten by a visitor. It’s not the first time, and probably won’t be the last.

Euronews

Virgin by Lorde is a layered work of performance art – her smartest references explained

With her latest album, Virgin, Lorde is stretching the concept of the virgin beyond the common definition. Some may consider the album’s title and its cover art – an X-ray of Lorde’s pelvis showing an IUD – to be contradictory.

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Two men jailed over theft of £4.75m gold toilet from Blenheim Palace

James Sheen given four-year term and Michael Jones 27 months after ‘bold and brazen’ theft of toilet in Oxfordshire

The Guardian - UK

Man who ‘foolishly’ agreed to help steal £4.75m gold toilet avoids jail time

“I am a good person” said the 36-year-old after his sentencing

The Independent UK

‘Gunshots were my obsession’: the nicked golden toilet’s creator on his new pump-action art

Maurizio Cattelan, the great Italian conceptual prankster who framed a banana and plumbed in a precious loo, explains why he’s now blasting holes in sheets of gold

The Guardian - UK

Adventures in AI, inner children unleashed and provocations from a master prankster – the week in art

Mat Collishaw’s cutting-edge experiments, a delirious meeting of two legends and more mischief from Maurizio Cattelan – all in your weekly dispatch

The Guardian - UK

Photographer Miles Aldridge to host ‘marathon’ Polaroid sessions at Sotheby’s

The project offers members of the public the chance to take home their own Polaroid portrait.

Evening Standard

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The Guardian - UK

March design news: Maurzio Cattelan goes Greek, art teapots and house paint that changes colour

Exhibitions at this year’s Milan Furniture Fair, a guide to green wood carving and funeral urns by Alessi

Euronews

In Pictures: The week in Culture

If a picture paints a thousand words... here’s all you need to know or may have missed about this past week in Culture (17-21 March 2025).

Euronews

Jury convicts thieves who stole satirical golden toilet from Churchill’s birthplace

The audacious heist of a unique and functioning artwork by conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan has ended with the conviction of three men.

The Independent UK

Men found guilty of stealing £4.75m golden toilet from Blenheim Palace

The fully-functioning 18-carat toilet was a star attraction in an art installation before its theft

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Evening Standard

Man denies helping thief sell gold from golden toilet after Blenheim Palace raid

Frederick Doe is accused of helping James Sheen sell gold from an 18-carat toilet that was stolen in an ‘audacious raid’ at Blenheim Palace in 2019.

Evening Standard

Man accused of stealing gold toilet checked web headlines about raid – court

Oxford Crown Court heard that Michael Jones had searched for details about the burglary in the days following the raid at Blenheim Palace in 2019.

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Gold Toilet Stolen From Blenheim Palace In Audacious Raid

Learn about the daring heist of a valuable gold toilet from Blenheim Palace, a satirical artwork by Maurizio Cattelan.

Evening Standard

Gold toilet stolen from Blenheim Palace in ‘audacious raid’, court hears

The toilet, which was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was a star attraction in an exhibition

The Independent UK

Damien Hirst says banana taped to wall is ‘serious art’

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love about art,’ said the British artist

The Guardian - UK

‘It is everything art gets a bad name for and everything I love’: Damien Hirst and Cornelia Parker on choosing artworks for schools

Antony Gormley and Bridget Riley also pick works to be shown on high-res displays, thanks to a drive to put art at the core of the secondary school cultural syllabus

The Guardian - AU

From Moo Deng to Me Espresso: it’s the 2024 bumper pop culture quiz of the year

Do you know your hot rodent boyfriends, which celebrity is selling feet pics on OnlyFans and who fell off a stage this year? Then this is the quiz for you

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