Thieves Steal $5 Million Gold Toilet From Art Exhibition in British Palace

Art can be weird.

I mean we’ve all seen great works of art like Da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and van Gogh’s Starry Night.

However, there also some strange art exhibitions out there. Like the one where sixteen performance artists sat in a glass box taking turns to read extracts from a book of 271,000 even and odd numbers.

Or… well, whatever this is.

It’s…it’s just blue paint. (A painting that sold for $44 million, by the way)

Because of its subjective nature, a piece of art can be absolutely mesmerizing to one person, and incredibly dull to another.

So, just about anything can be an art piece, including the thing you poop in.

Thieves Steal $5 Million Gold Toilet From Britain’s Blenheim Palace

Thieves have stolen an 18-carat gold toilet from Britain’s Blenheim Palace, where it had been installed as an art exhibit.

Yes, a gold toilet has been used as an art exhibit.

But that’s not all.

According to Reuters, the gold toilet was fully functional.

So, technically, you could take a shit in it. A really, really, really, expensive shit.

And take a shit in it people did, when it was exhibited at New York’s Guggenheim Museum, where over 100,000 visitors were able to use it.

The toilet, valued at US$5 million, was created by Italian conceptual artist Maurizio Cattelan.

The art piece was named “America”, which is pretty apt considering what’s going on in the country.

Cattelan’s toilet was recently exhibited at Blenheim Palace, a stately home in London and the birthplace of Winston Churchill.

A few weeks ago, however, thieves broke into the palace and stole the gold toilet in the wee hours of the morning, said the Thames Valley Police.

The police added that the removal has caused significant damage because the toilet was plumbed into the building.

One 66-year-old man in connection with the theft has been arrested but the police have not recovered the luxurious toilet.

One wonders, though, what the motives of the thieves were; to sell the toilet and get rich or to feel like a king while pooping?

Nothing makes you feel fancier than shitting on gold, I suppose.