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Museum offers gold toilet to Trump instead of Van Gogh's work - report
BBC ^ | 1=5, 2018

Posted on 01/25/2018 5:23:52 PM PST by sparklite2

New York's Guggenheim museum has turned down a request from President Donald Trump to borrow Van Gogh's work for the White House - instead offering him a gold toilet, media reports say.

But the Guggenheim suggested a "solid, 18-karat toilet" could be offered as an alternative.

The White House has made no comment.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


TOPICS: Arts/Photography; Conspiracy
KEYWORDS: guggenheim; newyork; vangogh
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To: livius

Pauline Kael’s exact quote, from a speech to the Modern Language Association, was: “I live in a rather special world. I only know one person who voted for Nixon. Where they are I don’t know. They’re outside my ken. But sometimes when I’m in a theater I can feel them”. I would imagine that Miss Kael spent many of her afternoons at the Guggenheim, appreciating bizarre artwork that would be perceived as worthless trash to those of us Nixon voters. For some odd reason, I consider myself lucky that I never had to see Miss Kael’s ugly puss in person just as she probably considered herself lucky never to have met me.


21 posted on 01/25/2018 6:22:40 PM PST by laconic
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To: laconic

Ah, the MLA. The members - who are virtually all academics - live in such a special world that everybody is outside of their ken, to the point that the titles of their papers are an ongoing joke among the sane, But the left eats its own...even Pauline Kael got into trouble over a movie review that somebody decided was “homophobic.” However, she redeemed herself with other even more raving opinions.

I’ve never understood how these people can just stand around and blow off most of their fellow US citizens and even fellow New Yorkers and not even feel the slightest twinge of elitism. But again, they’re in their own little world, and they think it’s the only one that counts.


22 posted on 01/25/2018 6:37:29 PM PST by livius
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To: sparklite2

23 posted on 01/25/2018 6:38:38 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a Simple Manner for a Happy Life :o)
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To: FrankR

LOL


24 posted on 01/25/2018 6:39:02 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

SPITEFUL. Guggenheim sucks. I will bad mouth them for as long as I live.


25 posted on 01/25/2018 6:47:37 PM PST by Lopeover ( The 2016 Election is about allegiance to the United States!)
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To: freespirit2012; Kaslin; SunkenCiv

Would any one EXCEPT a twelve year kid buy what the Guggenheim has hanging on their walls as “art” ?


26 posted on 01/25/2018 6:50:34 PM PST by Robert A Cook PE (I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
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To: Liberty Valance

27 posted on 01/25/2018 7:09:56 PM PST by sparklite2 (See more at Sparklite Times)
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To: sparklite2

Is it normal for a President to request to borrow artwork from a museum?

If not, I don’t think Trump should have asked. It seems a little presumptuous to me. (You can check my posts, I’m a big Trump fan. But I won’t blindly defend any and all actions.)

OTOH, knowing how the media operates, perhaps this was a setup and the museum offered to let him borrow something so that they could do this to try to make him look bad.

?


28 posted on 01/25/2018 7:20:12 PM PST by generally ( Don't be stupid. We have politicians for that.)
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To: PittsburghAfterDark

$1,267,200 actually.


29 posted on 01/25/2018 7:59:02 PM PST by logi_cal869 (-cynicus-)
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To: sparklite2

It’s fake.


30 posted on 01/25/2018 9:59:53 PM PST by ALASKA (Watching a coup..........)
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To: sparklite2

Excellent- he should melt it down and put the proceeds towards the wall. :)


31 posted on 01/25/2018 11:04:53 PM PST by SoKatt ("Change" is not a strategy!)
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To: sparklite2

Trump should take it- glue a pic of Hillary in it, take several dumps in it and send it back.


32 posted on 01/26/2018 7:44:45 AM PST by ClearBlueSky (ISLAM is the problem. ISLAM is the enemy of civilization.)
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To: sparklite2

The current New York Guggenheim museum is a toilet.


33 posted on 01/26/2018 8:01:47 AM PST by MarvinStinson
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To: sparklite2

It’s sad how disrespectful supposed professionals can be — and so many of them are out there. We have not been noticing the extent to which our society has been degenerating and have not been taking enough action to save it. Thank goodness that Trump stepped up to the plate. Now we need to back him.


34 posted on 01/26/2018 8:34:55 AM PST by KittyKares (Drain the Swamp)
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To: Robert A Cook PE; AdmSmith; AnonymousConservative; Berosus; Bockscar; cardinal4; ColdOne; ...
Thanks Robert A Cook PE.

35 posted on 01/26/2018 9:32:03 AM PST by SunkenCiv (www.tapatalk.com/groups/godsgravesglyphs/, forum.darwincentral.org, www.gopbriefingroom.com)
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To: lurk
"The WH should accept the toilet and put it in a visible place with a sign explaining the back story."

Should be a ceremony to go with it.


36 posted on 01/27/2018 2:25:36 AM PST by clearcarbon
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