An 18-karat gold toilet sculpture called "America" sold at a Sotheby's auction for $12.1 million with fees. The toilet, made by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, is made of about 223 pounds of gold.

The internet and its lores never fail to make us laugh. Remember the banana duct-taped to a wall? It sold for $6.2 million at a New York auction on Nov. 21, 2024. Titled “Comedian,” the piece by ...

MIAMI -- When an artist duct-taped a banana to a wall and priced it at $120,000 this week, we should probably have known where the story was heading. The work, by Maurizio Cattelan, was ripe for the ...

Exactly one year after “Comedian” (2019), the cursed banana duct-taped to the wall, went under the hammer at Sotheby's and down Chinese crypto billionaire Justin Sun's gullet for a whopping $6.2 ...

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LONDON (AP) — For sale: The world’s most valuable toilet, a lavatory literally worth its weight in gold. Sotheby’s has announced it will auction a solid gold toilet, a sculpture by Italian artist ...

Millions of dollars may not sound like too much to pay for a golden throne — but what about a flushable one? An 18-karat gold toilet sold for $12.1 million with fees at a Sotheby's auction on Tuesday.