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White House asks for Van Gogh loan – but museum offers gold toilet instead
The Guardian ^ | 1/25/18 | Anon

Posted on 01/25/2018 3:53:40 PM PST by DoodleDawg

The Guggenheim Museum has reportedly turned down a White House request to borrow a Van Gogh painting, and has instead offered the Trump administration the use of a golden toilet.

The White House had asked the Guggenheim, based in New York, to borrow Landscape With Snow, Van Gogh’s 1888 work depicting a man and a dog walking through a field.

But the Guggenheim’s chief curator, Nancy Spector, turned down the request, the Washington Post reported on Thursday. Instead she said the White House could loan an 18-carat toilet – an installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan.

The fully functioning toilet, titled America, was installed in the Guggenheim in September 2016. It was available for public use, and tens of thousands of people obliged. But with the exhibition over, Spector saw that the toilet could now potentially serve the president.

Spector’s emailed reply to the White House’s request to loan Landscape with Snow was obtained by the Post. The veracity of the email, which was sent on September 15, was confirmed to the newspaper by the Guggenheim. The museum did not immediately respond to the Guardian’s request for comment.

Spector wrote that America was available, “should the President and First Lady have any interest in installing it in the White House”.

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


TOPICS: News/Current Events; US: New York
KEYWORDS: goldtoilet; guggenheim; newyork; toilet; trump; vangogh; whvangogh
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To: DoodleDawg

This just burns me. I hope Trump knows some of their biggest donors and makes a few phone calls. This is a stunt worthy of a tabloid, not a museum. I love art, but the art world is dominated by delusional liberal wackos. Where is the dignity that such an institution should exude?


21 posted on 01/25/2018 4:04:54 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: DoodleDawg
Nancy Spector
22 posted on 01/25/2018 4:04:56 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: Cicero

Boom. Mentally ill.


23 posted on 01/25/2018 4:05:54 PM PST by GnuThere
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To: DoodleDawg

24 posted on 01/25/2018 4:06:02 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: DoodleDawg

Undoubtedly the Museum receives federal funds for something. Cease the funding.


25 posted on 01/25/2018 4:06:06 PM PST by elpadre (AfganistaMr Obama said theoal was to "disrupt, dismantle and defeat al-hereQaeda" and its allies.)
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To: pfflier

Trump should accept the offer and the soiled gold shitter has an unfortunate boating accident.

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26 posted on 01/25/2018 4:07:07 PM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: Cicero

Where’d she get her hair done, Tractor Supply?


27 posted on 01/25/2018 4:07:54 PM PST by Doogle (( USAF.68-73..8th TFW Ubon Thailand....never store a threat you should have eliminated)))
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To: Cicero

AAAAAAUGHH! my eyes my eyes!!!


28 posted on 01/25/2018 4:07:57 PM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: DoodleDawg
Very classy article shows the toilette but not the painting. Here's an image of the painting they're talking about.
ML/NJ
29 posted on 01/25/2018 4:08:45 PM PST by ml/nj
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To: Doogle

Danger danger, psycho bangs. Avoid any woman who butchers her hair that way. They’re all seriously disturbed.


30 posted on 01/25/2018 4:08:45 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: DoodleDawg

This is a full bore idiotic move by the Guggenheim. It wouldn’t surprise me that it is true.


31 posted on 01/25/2018 4:08:47 PM PST by cornfedcowboy
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To: DoodleDawg

The president should make sure that no one associated with the Guggenheim museum receives any money from the NEA as long as he is president.


32 posted on 01/25/2018 4:09:07 PM PST by WayneS (An appeaser is one who feeds a crocodile, hoping it will eat him last. - Winston Churchill)
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To: Cicero

The picture says it all.


33 posted on 01/25/2018 4:09:10 PM PST by Maudeen (Jesus is the Answer . . . Now What is the Question?)
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To: DoodleDawg

Trump should accept it and put it in the visiting Dignitary Lavatory.


34 posted on 01/25/2018 4:09:24 PM PST by TexasTransplant (Did You Screw up your Life? You get a “Second Chance” every second.)
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To: ml/nj

Whats that? It looks like the dog is taking a Spector!


35 posted on 01/25/2018 4:10:20 PM PST by Gasshog ( Fight climate change - Try beating the air and scream at the sky)
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To: DoodleDawg
Landscape with Snow at the Guggenheim:


36 posted on 01/25/2018 4:11:00 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: ml/nj

You beat me to it.


37 posted on 01/25/2018 4:11:26 PM PST by Cicero (Marcus Tullius)
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To: DoodleDawg

What a smart-ass response. A toilet. Making a statement, of course. The bitch should be fired.


38 posted on 01/25/2018 4:11:26 PM PST by MayflowerMadam (Have an A-1 day.)
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To: Gasshog
Artsy eye bleach.


39 posted on 01/25/2018 4:12:03 PM PST by Textide (Lord, grant that I may always be right, for thou knowest I am hard to turn. ~ Scotch-Irish prayer)
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To: DoodleDawg
A relative of mine had a friend who ended up running around with one of the Guggenheims and became a jaded hedonist... ended up dying young under rather unusual circumstances. The whole incident became a cautionary tale within the family.

I think the Guggenheim Museum itself looks rather like a toilet, so Ms. Spector ought to feel right at home.

Mr. niteowl77

40 posted on 01/25/2018 4:12:10 PM PST by niteowl77
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