Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian,” a banana taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million to cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun, who ate it to embody the concept of the work. The story also highlighted Shah ...
A banana duct-taped to a wall, conceptualized as a satirical take on the art world's extravagance, has achieved an ...
For H.B. Just now I see in the news that a previously little known, rarely seen portrait by Caravaggio has reappeared in ...
Sun is the third person to eat the banana after performance artist David Datun in 2019 and a South Korean student lat year.
The 'Banana' hanging on the wall (titled 'Comedian') by Maurizio Cattelan was recently sold in New York for over 6 million ...
Sotheby's contemporary evening sale pulled in a total of $112.3 million. The result is 64 percent less than the same sales ...
The controversial work, which instantly went viral when it debuted at Art Basel in 2019, beat estimates several times over.
The $6.2 price tag for that banana “art” shows how a price can have no relation to value. Justin Sun’s purchase of it is more ...
Will Miami Art Week dispel the market gloom of the last two years? Plus, artists accuse OpenAI of "artwashing" and Justin Sun ...