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As his bullet-riddled panels go up at Gagosian, the artist, in a rare in-person interview, tells why he turned his sardonic gaze on a violence-filled world.
A uction house Sotheby’s said on Friday that Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's “Comedian” duct-taped banana artwork is up for auction once again, this time at an estimated $1 million to $1. ...
Comedian, Maurizio Cattelan’s instant classic, sold for more than quadruple some estimates at Sotheby’s this week. How one work, and its worth, both satirizes and explains the meme-y days ahead.
Maurizio Cattelan THE REDEMPTION by Jerry Saltz. Maurizio Cattelan's "All" at the Guggenheim Museum is more than just simple punch lines.
Artist Maurizio Cattelan vigorously denied copying another artist’s work in the making of his viral sculpture, Comedian, which comprises a banana duct-taped to a wall. In fact, his lawyers claim ...
First causing a stir at Art Basel, Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian", made from a banana and tape, is expected to fetch $1 million at auction.
The Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan shines a light on gun violence and the divisions in US society in a new installation, “Sunday,” at Gagosian in New York City.
This isn’t low-hanging fruit. Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” has fetched a phenomenal $6.2 million at auction at Sotheby’s in New York City. Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun snapped up the ...
To create the gold-plated steel panels now on sale at the Gagosian gallery, the Italian artist hired licensed shooters to riddle them with bullets, in front of spectators like Jeff Koons.
Maurizio Cattelan once remarked, “It’s not about art, it’s about life, and that’s what interests me.” In ‘The Third Hand’ exhibition at Moderna Museet, Cattelan brings this ...
Since the early 1990s, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan has been considered one of contemporary art’s most high-profile provocateurs. His praying schoolboy Hitler (Him, 2001), meteorite-struck ...