NY museum offers Trumps solid-gold toilet
But when Trump's administration reached out to New York's Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum to borrow a Van Gogh, the museum countered with an offer of a solid-gold toilet that had been used by an estimated 100,000 museum visitors.
Trump's predecessor chose a number of abstract pieces and also works from African-American artists.
She also told the White House that the painting was on its way to be exhibited at Guggenheim's museum in Bilbao, Spain, and will not return to NY for the foreseeable future.
Instead, The Washington Post reports, the Guggenheim Museum's chief curator came up with a pointedly satirical counteroffer - a working solid-gold toilet made by an Italian artist.
The newspaper obtained an email from Guggenheim curator Nancy Spector to the White House in which she said the toilet was available "should the President and First Lady have any interest in installing it in the White House".
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And Trump got the golden toilet! The 18-karat artwork was created by artist Maurizio Cattelan and was named "America", as a representation of the nation's wealth and excess. All the man wanted was a long-term loan of Landscape With Snow, an original Van Gogh from the Guggenheim to hang in his private residence.
It had been on display at the museum for about a year until last fall.
The Guggenheim has not received a response from the White House so no word yet if Donald and Melania will be sitting on a gold thrown anytime soon.
'It is, of course, extremely valuable and somewhat fragile, but we would provide all the instructions for its installation and care, ' Spector, who has criticized Trump in the past, told the White House official. "Everything seems absurd until we die and then it makes sense".
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