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  "textContent": "\n\n  Maurizio Cattelan’s _America,_ on view at Sotheby’s in New York last fall.\n\n##### With Maurizio Cattelan’s latest act arriving next week, a look back at the improbable saga of the Italian artist’s $6 million golden toilet\n\nBy Harry Seymour\n\nShortly before daybreak on September 14, 2019, five masked men driving two stolen vehicles barreled through the gates of Blenheim Palace, England’s best-known stately home. Sledgehammering a ground-floor window, they passed the room where Winston Churchill was born and headed straight for their target: a solid-gold toilet worth $6 million.\n\nCalled _America,_ the toilet was part of a bigger Maurizio Cattelan exhibition. Just hours earlier, party guests had been toasting its success, posing for photographs on the 18-karat throne and flushing Dom Pérignon down its working pipes.\n\nThe gang wrenched it from wood paneling, causing water to spray around the room, then rolled its 220-pound body into a Volkswagen Golf and sped down a warren of Cotswolds’ country roads. The whole heist took five minutes. READ ON",
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