The Art World's Pot Stirrer Returns

Maurizio Cattelan’s first solo gallery show in more than 20 years is a provocative commentary on America’s ills.

- Madeline Leung Coleman

The artist Maurizio Cattelan loves to play, and he especially loves playing God. There was his smiting of Pope John Paul II in the hyperrealistic 1999 sculpture La Nona Ora, in which a meteorite crushes His Holiness. And there are Cattelan’s resurrections, including the one he performed on his career in 2016, when he ended a brief retirement by installing a solid-gold toilet at the Guggenheim and calling it