The art world's great 'Banana' moment won't change a thing

Bananas are traditional indicators of hilarity. We puncture our pretensions by slipping on their skins, they’re comic stand-ins for the male member and they’re yellow – a colour that’s always been considered slightly silly. For these reasons and more, 59-year-old Cattelan – one of contemporary art’s more established pranksters – titled his work. But even this practised controversy-monger could hardly have predicted the marvellous farce within a farce he was about to unleash.

This piece refers to the South American socialist countries, replacing the sickle with a banana (an arrogant reference to the term banana republics) and the hammer with a tape (a reference to the absence of the freedom of speech). And yet, it is not art.

And this is how I learned Art is also a joke

Shawarma will do 😂😂

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