To think the real crime was creating a £1m gold toilet?

Could I just, politely I hope, remind posters that a title and a thread like this needs at least a short description of the issue and preferably a link.

For we who don't live in the UK or access the lastest gossip, it would be helpful.

Nga mihi = thank you.

Where there's muck---

Tee hee hee hee.

Someone will be flush if it's melted down.

Oh, I'm sure they'll get to the bottom of it.

Police have nothing to go on !

I bet that wasn't one of Mr Crappers little jobs.

Cattelan was sponsored by the Guggenheim Foundation and a Parisian arts trust, amongst others (according to google). There's a lot of money sloshing round the art world. The toilet is apparently worth over £1 million, Leonardo's Salvator Mundi was sold at auction a couple of years ago for over 450 times that.

If the robbers have melted it down and given the money to good causes, I'd probably applaud them. I doubt this has happened though.

Riverwalk -

Shit happens

Even as a work of art, surely it should have been merely gold plated? My first reaction was “How on earth could have Cattelan have afforded to build it?”

It was just part of a temporary art installation at Blenheim, wasn't it? I'd read that it had been taken to museums around the world, as some sort of satire against the excesses of wealth. I've no idea how it was financed, but I guess it would have been melted down eventually anyway?