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 ...

NEW YORK — A banana taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an art auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The piece of ...

Justin Sun purchased edition #2 of the Comedian at Sotheby’s auction. The bidding started at $800,000 and swiftly moved to $5 ...

Last fall an artist duct-taped a banana to a wall, and the piece sold for $6.24 million. As an economist who also runs the 800-piece contemporary-art collection at Booth, can you explain what made ...

The spot is a reference to a much-circulated art world story. In 2019 artist Maruzio Cattelan debuted “Comedian,” a new piece of conceptual art at Art Basel Miami. The work quickly made headlines, ...

In court papers, the collector says an adviser, without authorization, schemed to sell a Giacometti sculpture he bought for ...

A banana duct-taped to a wall says a lot about today’s art market, according to Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of Marketing Henrik Hagtvedt, author of the just-released Money and ...

which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. The piece, which has been described as a commentary on the world of art, exists in three versions, with the second version being sold to ...

I’ve always been something of an art afficionado ... fetched a cool $150,000 for his latest masterpiece, a banana he taped to the wall of an exhibit in Miami Beach. According to an interview ...

As you've seen in the lines above, this Ferrari is a far cry from a banana on a wall in terms of, well, everything. Yet, it is estimated it will be sold for just $5.6 million. Only if the right ...

which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. The piece, which has been described as a commentary on the world of art, exists in three versions, with the second version being sold to cryptocurrency ...