Art: 18-karat gold bathroom

- The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, one of the best paid in the world and stopped in 2011 because he was the art world, is back. The Guggenheim Museum in Manhattan will put his latest work in May: a solid, 18-carat gold toilet for an original design manufacturer Kohler toilet.

Precious toilet bowl, according to the New York Times not on display behind glass at room but comes as utensil to stand in a public space with stone counterparts, mirrors, sinks and doors with locks. For those who feel the need.,, You can go to the health facility to bask in the shine of it, but it only becomes art when someone sits on it or over it depends '' says Cattelan.

The announcement of the acquisition of the American museum, once a turd by the artist were exhibited in a can, held the minds Wednesday pretty busy. Experts praised the work as a shining symbol of the obscene wealth in the art in combination with a working receptacle of human waste.