Duct-taped banana artwork sells for $6.2m in NYC

#1

I’m at a loss as to what to say about the article below, other than I can’t tell if the “art-work” is real or not or just some kind of crypto laundering scam. What a cultural point to get to when either option is just as likely.

To quote part of the article:

“In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience,” Mr Sun was quoted as saying.

The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.

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#2

A fool and his money are soon parted. :joy:

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#3

“bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35” - that’s inflation in the art world! lol

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#4

The Galactic buzz; have those monkeys on Earth gone bananas?

Top-banana technocrat; pays top-banana, for second-banana art-work.

Insanity personified; has become an art.

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#5

This guy wasn’t paying $6.2M for a banana – he was paying for self-aggrandizing ostentation – maybe to impress someone…

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#6

The contemporary “art world” is that, plus a money laundering system - the work’s intrinsic value has become totally arbitrary…

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#7

Thanks for sharing this – for some reason, the title of your post caught my attention, because it is so incredibly bizarre. And it somehow speaks to bringing to the forefront something that has been bothering me about the ongoing normalized uglification of our world through noise and architecture and fashion – what a friend calls “ashtray music”, “ashtray architecture”, “ashtray fashion”, “ashtray art”, “ashtray manners” – it feels like we’re living in a giant ashtray that’s being imposed on a public who buys all that stuff.

What would a crime writer do that that story!
With the money-laundering theme, the “look-here, “look-at-me”!” magic trick, the subtle and not-so-subtle theme of mockery of the arts aimed at the public (er monkeys…)

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#8

Great idea, I will start selling duct-taped banana’s door to door :slight_smile:

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#9

Robert, you made me laugh out loud!!! :rofl:

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Madeira Island banana advert. Loose translation - “Don’t get fooled by the duct-tape - the real duct-tape, the real banana!”

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#12

It’s official, the $6.2 M banana has been eaten. An appalling example of the current massive wealth inequality

https://www.rt.com/pop-culture/608403-chinese-billionaire-eats-banana-artwork/

#13

Literally & symbolically
an In-Your-Face…
EAT IT!

A recent Health CEO, did just that.

A counter way to express…
literal symbolism?

Are we watching…
Art…
as performance?

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