Shortly before his retrospective opened at the Guggenheim, in 2011, Maurizio Cattelan (seen above, in a recent self-portrait) announced his retirement. Then, ever the prankster, he hung virtually all of his sculptures midair, by ropes, in the museum: he killed his career. “Be Right Back,” Maura Axelrod’s documentary about the irreverent Italian artist, which opens at the newly refurbished Quad Cinema on April 14, includes footage of that show. Meanwhile, Cattelan has unretired—last year, he installed a solid-gold toilet in a Guggenheim rest room.
