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The emailed response from the Guggenheims chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to borrow a painting by Vincent van Gogh for President and Melania Trumps private living quarters.
Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like Landscape With Snow, the 1888 van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.The curators alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet an interactive work titled America that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.
For a year, the Guggenheim had exhibited America the creation of contemporary artist Maurizio Cattelan in a public restroom on the museums fifth floor for visitors to use.But the exhibit was over and the toilet was available should the President and First Lady have any interest in installing it in the White House, Spector wrote in an email obtained by The Washington Post.
The artist would like to offer it to the White House for a long-term loan, wrote Spector, who has been critical of Trump. It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care. The White House did not respond to inquiries about the matter.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/dc-politics/the-white-house-wanted-a-van-gogh-the-guggenheim-offered-a-used-solid-gold-toilet/2018/01/25/38d574fc-0154-11e8-bb03-722769454f82_story.html?utm_term=.7ecde9fe29fb
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Hopefully, though, part of the "care" instructions would admonish them that under no circumstances should Comrade President be allowed to plop his MAMMOTH ASS on it. Gold is malleable, and a squashed piece of art tends to lose value.
If they got it back at all, of course.