Absolutely True

January 25, 2018 By: Juanita Jean Herownself Category: Uncategorized

The Washington Post.  I did not want you to miss this.

The emailed response from the Guggenheim’s chief curator to the White House was polite but firm: The museum could not accommodate a request to “borrow” a painting by Vincent Van Gogh for President and Melania Trump’s private living quarters.

Instead, wrote the curator, Nancy Spector, another piece was available, one that was nothing like “Landscape With Snow,” the 1888 Van Gogh rendering of a man in a black hat walking along a path in Arles, France, with his dog.

The curator’s alternative: an 18-karat, fully functioning, solid gold toilet — an interactive work titled “America” that critics have described as pointed satire aimed at the excess of wealth in this country.

 

 

No word yet on whether or not Trump already has one.

Yes, the Guggenheim has loaned art to the White House before.  However, it was for the oval office or public areas.

Thanks to Chloe Bear for the heads up.

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