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,” ...

A toilet made of 18-karat gold and weighing 100 kilograms is going under the hammer this month, and yes, it actually works.

The 18-karat toilet, now valued at $10 million, is a rare and wry test of art’s appeal beyond its material worth as a ...

The Art Detective can reveal that America has been consigned anonymously by Steve Cohen, the billionaire hedge fund manager ...

Art world troll Maurizio Cattelan took the world by storm after his notorious duct-taped banana sold for over $6 million at Sotheby’s last fall. This year, the Italian prankster will likely turn “crap ...

The 18-karat toilet, now valued at $10 million, is a rare and wry test of art’s appeal beyond its material worth as a precious metal.

Love it or loathe it, Maurizio Cattelan’s solid gold toilet says rather a lot about America right now. It’s Marcel Duchamp’s Fountain (1917) for a blunter age. It may question the meaning and value of ...

Sotheby’s has announced it will auction a solid gold toilet, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan called “America ... He notes that Cattelan’s duct-taped banana posed questions about “how ...

A second solid 18-karat gold toilet—yes, sound money shaped like plumbing—is heading to auction, proof that irony still carries weight. Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan, who previously duct ...

If you've ever dreamed of owning a solid 18 karat gold toilet, now might be your chance.

An artist sculpted a toilet out of 223 pounds of gold, a weight valued at about $10 million in current gold markets. Sotheby’s is betting it can auction off the golden bowl for even more. The 18-karat ...