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 ...
For H.B. Just now I see in the news that a previously little known, rarely seen portrait by Caravaggio has reappeared in ...
A banana duct-taped to a wall, conceptualized as a satirical take on the art world's extravagance, has achieved an ...
Justin Sun, who purchased the work just last week, also pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the vendor who originally sold ...
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 ...
A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who had bought a piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, ...
The new owner of Maurizio Cattelan's art said it "bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community.” ...
He’s been an artist for many years but made waves once again for a piece that sold this month. Meet Italian artist Maurizio ...
Justin Sun fulfilled his promise to eat the controversial artwork at a glamorous hotel in Hong Kong, describing the taste as ...
The controversial work, which instantly went viral when it debuted at Art Basel in 2019, beat estimates several times over.