Posted on 05/05/2016 10:21:08 AM PDT by C19fan
Unlike professional athletes, actors (Gene Hackman) and some novelists (Philip Roth), visual artists don’t usually retire. Or if they do, they don’t announce it.
But in 2011, Maurizio Cattelan — one of the most expensive living artists, then at the peak of his career and the subject of an uproarious retrospective at the Guggenheim Museum — told the world that he was finished, fatigued both creatively and by the velocity of the money-fueled art world. During the last couple of years, though, Mr. Cattelan found himself itching to make things in three dimensions again. “Actually, it’s even more of a torture not to work than to work,” he said in an interview. And so he is coming out of retirement with a new sculpture that seems designed to proclaim his return with an exclamation point, though the piece is of modest size and will not be on view in a public gallery.
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I actually met a billionaire who had a gold toilet - I saw it.
It wasn’t funny, and he wasn’t joking.
The rich really are different from you and I.
That doesn’t make the rich different, just means they don’t have to do their “transactions” in fiat toilets.
/jk
And, I Sh!t Gold Bricks...
I meant their minds.
Many of them have an arrogance and contempt we can’t fathom - their wealth affects their minds in a peculiar and powerful way. Not all of them, of course. But many.
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