A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent ...

Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian” (2019) was offered at Sotheby’s with an estimate of $1–1.5 million ... for the rights to tape a banana to a wall and call it Art, and each of them ultimately ...

This article originally appeared on USA TODAY: A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby's art auction Maurizio Cattelan's art installation "Comedian" sold at auction at ...

of a banana affixed to a white wall with some common duct tape for $6.2 million. The “conceptual artwork” entitled Comedian by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, debuted in 2019 at the Art ...

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Just as a banana can become art, cryptocurrency redefines what can ... high profile auctions when in 2019 he famously won a $4.5 million charity auction to have lunch with Warren Buffett.

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Pratt uses the glasses (priced between $299 and $379), to identify that it is (actually) a piece of art. Hemsworth, who is not wearing the smart glasses, starts eating the banana. “That’s a $6 ...

After four years of art school, Mr. Cattelan must have cycled through countless theories of what a banana is “supposed” to be. Is it a kind of phallic idol? A slippery, cylindrical ...