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Giant Golden Toilet Sculpture Appears Near Lincoln Memorial in D.C.: ‘A Throne Fit for a King’

ARTnews.com·@AlexGreenberger·2 months ago
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The latest in a series of politically inflected sculptures to appear on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., is a giant golden toilet that can now be found near the Lincoln Memorial. Its title, as its plaque states, is *A Throne Fit for a King*, and its makers is the Secret Handshake, the same group of anonymous artists that also produced *Best Friends Forever*, a sculpture that featured a beaming Donald Trump and the convicted sex offender Jeffrey Epstein. “With so much horror happening on a daily basis, it’s easy to forget what this President has actually accomplished. Like remodeling *The Lincoln Bathroom*,” the Secret Handshake told *ARTnews* in an email. The group was referring to Trump’s renovation last year of the bathroom attached to the Lincoln Bedroom, a guest room at the White House. At Trump’s behest, the bathroom’s Art Deco–style green tiling was switched out for sterile marble, leading to online mockery.…

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