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America golden loo looted

A famous Cattelan’s piece of art valued at £1m stolen from an exhibition

An 18-carat golden toilet has been stolen from Winston Churchill’s birthplace. This golden loo is a piece of art by Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian artist famous for his odd artworks. This loo is named ‘America’ and the artist never explained exactly the meaning of his work.

America is part of a contemporary exhibition at Blenheim Palace in Woodstock, Oxfordshire. The loo is valued at £1m and was stolen before 5 a.m. on Saturday, September 14, 2019.

For the exhibition, the toilet had been plumbed and it worked correctly like a real toilet so that visitors had been given three minutes of solitude to test it out.

America attracted about 600 thousand visitors when it was in New York at Guggenheim Museum, where it stays regularly.

When the burglary happened, significant damage and flooding have been left. Then a 66-year-old man has been arrested in connection with the theft but investigations go on and the artwork still hasn’t been found.

Source The Guardian

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