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Best of the bunch: sale of duct-taped banana sparks trend across Miami fairs
The tragicomic saga of Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped banana is reaching new highs (and lows) at Miami Art Week.
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A Man Bought Maurizio Cattelan’s Viral Banana For $6 Million—He Plans to Eat It
The new owner of Maurizio Cattelan's art said it "bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community.” ...
Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for $6.2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor
Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 ...
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Five years after the banana frenzy, Maurizio Cattelan takes aim at gun violence at Art Basel Miami Beach
Fresh off his work Comedian (2019) selling for $6.2m at Sotheby’s in New York, Maurizio Cattelan is debuting a new work at ...
Collector eats world-famous $6.2M banana
Last week, Chinese billionaire and cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bought “Comedian,” a Maurizio Cattelan work of a ...
Bangladeshi fruit vendor moved to tears as banana he sold for 35 cents fetches millions
Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi fruit vendor in Manhattan, was shocked to discover that a banana he sold for 35 cents ...
Maurizio Cattelan's 'Banana' Sells for Over $6 Million: A Look at the Controversial Artist's Career
The 'Banana' hanging on the wall (titled 'Comedian') by Maurizio Cattelan was recently sold in New York for over 6 million ...
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Cattelan’s $6.2 Million Banana Boosts an Otherwise Uneven Auction Night at Sotheby’s
Sotheby's contemporary evening sale pulled in a total of $112.3 million. The result is 64 percent less than the same sales ...
That $6.2 million banana is a perfect symbol for our bloated economy
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 ...