Maurizio Cattelan never got to use his fully functioning gold toilet at the Solomon R. Guggenheim museum. The line for the work, titled America (2016), was too long, he recently told the Guardian. But ...

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One bidder flush with cash threw a whopping $12.1 million down the toilet to take home a golden throne — a potty made ...

Two shows of remarkably similar works by artists Maurizio Cattelan and Anthony James opened on the same day in New York recently, and now Cattelan is for the latest time on the receiving end of an ...

The man behind the Guggenheim Museum’s solid-gold toilet, Maurizio Cattelan has been described as a prankster, a fraud, an imitator, an innovator, a genius, a xylophone, and “quite possibly the most ...

Maurizio Cattelan may have called it quits as an artist after his retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum in 2011, but his death in the art world has been greatly exaggerated. The Italian provocateur ...

When people talk of “the Sixties,” in a sense they mean 1968. It was a year of revolution. It was a year of assassinations — Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert Kennedy were murdered within months of ...

This story appears in the May 31, 2016 issue of Forbes. There will soon be one more place to sit down at New York’s Guggenheim museum: Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has created an 18-karat gold ...

A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami, the international art fair featuring works by acclaimed and emerging artists. Another edition of the concept art is expected to ...

The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has seldom shied from creating works that raise eyebrows. He is, after all, the person responsible for that $120,000 banana, and the popular, highly symbolic gold ...

The banana — which is starting to turn brown — was reportedly purchased at a grocery store Georgia Slater is a staff editor on the Parents team at PEOPLE. She has been working at PEOPLE since 2018.

Still from Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back (all images courtesy Maurizio Cattelan Archive unless indicated otherwise) Installation view of Maurizio Cattelan: All at the Guggenheim (photo by the ...