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Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork featuring a fresh banana taped to a wall has been eaten by a visitor to a museum ...
This is the fourth time the duct-taped fruit, which comprises the conceptual artwork 'Comedian,' has been consumed.
Artnet reported: “In a characteristically tongue-and-cheek retort, the Italian artist-provocateur said he was disappointed ...
Well, when you duct-tape a perishable fruit to a wall, call it art, and sell it for $6.2 million, there is just bound to be a ...
The New York Post said the asking price of $120,000 for Comedian in 2019 was evidence that the market was "bananas" and the art world had "gone mad". Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun last year ...
Maurizio Cattelan kickstarted one of the art world’s biggest viral moments when he sold a banana duct-taped to a wall for $120,000. But now, a California-based artist is claiming that Cattelan ...
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A visitor to a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth millions of dollars taped to a wall last week, exhibitors said ...
Maurizio Cattelan’s first show in New York, in 1994, consisted of a self-­portrait in the form of a live donkey wandering around a gallery under a chandelier, braying inconsolably.
In 1999, the artist Maurizio Cattelan achieved a level of virality that was almost unthinkable in the pre-social media era when he exhibited a wax statue of Pope John Paul II struck by a meteorite.
Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," which features a banana duct-taped to a wall, at Art Basel Miami. Courtesy of Art Basel. Cattelan did not expound on the meaning of the artwork to Artnet, but ...
A museum-goer at Pompidou-Metz pulled "The Comedian" off the wall and ate it last weekend. It likely won't be the last time.