Witness History
Witness History
The Toilet
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July 4, 2018
10 minutes
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A controversial installation by Russian conceptual artists Ilya and Emilia Kabakov offended Russians in 1992, but is now seen as a masterpiece. Emilia Kabakov told Dina Newman that The Toilet is "a metaphor for life."
Photo: The Toilet, a model; credit: Kabakov archive