Looking back at Maurizio Cattelan's divisive Blenheim Palace exhibition



Victory Is Not An Option, one of the most significant contemporary art exhibitions of 2019, made headlines not just for its well-hung (from a ceiling) taxidermied horse but for being the target of the UK’s most brazen art heist. In the opening weekend of artist Maurizio Cattelan’s retrospective at Blenheim Palace, a work titled America was stolen. The piece was a fully-functioning, solid gold toilet valued at $6m (£4.8m), which had been plumbed into the historic building. Ever the irreverent, the Italian artist confessed his admiration for the burglars’ audacity and wanted to find out how they had been enjoying it…

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