The controversy-stirring artwork first sold for $120,000, and then was sold two more times for $120,000 to $150,000, reported The Times.
When asked what he was doing by an attendee at the show, Datuna allegedly stated that he was a performance artist, according to theTo many people's surprise, the consumed banana does not actually reduce the artwork's price, Lucien Terras, director of museum relations for Galerie Perrotin, told the Miami Herald.
Crazy
I love the fact Popeye’s Chicken tweeted its version of Cattelan’s conceptual piece. This shows how ridiculous it is to label something like the banana as art. The entire 'art world' is ridiculous when it comes to pricing art.
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At some point it was going to rot. Yall realize that right? Why is this even a story. Who cares about pretentious modern art anyway.
Stupid . AMERICA 😒
The mentioned piece of (banana) “art” was part of Art Basel as a whole but it was really exhibited at the Scope (exhibition) premise (hall/gallery/wall/tent/carpa) at SouthBeach, just mentioning the fact, so you may do your research and reporting more precisely...
Liberal idiots
Must of had cramps.
Artificial Bananas have cost consumers more than $120,000.00 since they began being displayed all over the world.
ArtDecider
Was it REALLY a $120k banana? Could not the 'artist' remake the piece with another 50 cent banana?
they could if let it go bad first
A banana duct taped to a wall valued at $120,000 is porn for jews
'Art aficionados' my ass .
The whole act was to show... how stupid capitalism was... no wonder Times, abc, anbc,bbc, economist.... and so many others of you fake people..... are showing it like stupid 😂😂😂 I'm sad of how many can't think
Who cares?
'Art' smh...ppl are stupid.
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It was going to rot anyway...it’s sad to think 💭 people have that much disposable cash to spend on that type of “art”. It was a flipping banana and duct tape.
Not sure what’s dumber. Paying $120,000 for a banana taped to a wall that’ll be rotten in two days or eating a banana some moron paid $120,000 for.
Ok, dummies - take your foot off the stupid-pedal for a minute: the *$120K bid* was PART OF THE GAG*. There was never really an actual buyer. YOU'VE BEEN HAD. ...and I salute that. 🎩👌
Money laundering , or tax evasion , maybe even insurance fraud...but this is not art, nor should it be celebrated as such ...
WHO. CARES?
One more question, was that banana authenticated? This may have been a banana homicide.
Legend
And this is why I'll never understand art.
Why he didn't go to Walmart to buy banana and duck tape for less than $10 and tape them on his entire house!
Ok...What a great way to spend your money!! I’ll put fruit on my wall with duck tape and eat it got 120,000.
So the duct tape is worth, what, $20,000?
This is Florida people!
Valuable fruit? Or seemingly obvious money laundering?
Good for him! That’s not art🤷🏼♀️
I fully support art and hate to pass judgement. I do think that $$ could have been used to feed more people than just one.
Liberal stupidity on steroids.
If it's a problem he can just replace it with another one
Were these the same aficionados that considered a banana duct taped to the wall to be art?
Bananas are meant to be eaten, not taped to the wall.😛
What a bunch of donkeys.
I have an extra one !🍌
I can think of no greater waste of one's life than to be a 'stunned art aficionado.' Except perhaps a journalist.
Insane all around
A fool and his money are soon parted 💸
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He fell for the 🍌 in the tail pipe
Stop calling it a 120k banana. It was a fucking banana. Stop ruining art.
😂
One of the most ridiculous waste of money.
FFS. I will come to anyone's house who has a white wall and tape a banana to it for $500
Well sht I got on counter can intrade them for a Ferrari?
A guy up the street from me just put one on his wall. He now wants a million 5 for his house.
Maybe some collector will pay for this mans bowel movement now.
We have now crossed over into the gilded age of the absurd.
What do you mean? All I see is the human effect of leaving our fingerprints on nature and its destruction of the current climate in which is bound to be ready for an ice age and if possible, even showcasing the tape itself as a constrain for the nature to grow itself and bloom
'art aficionados' Liking AND buying an almost rotten banana duct taped to a wall Im sorry.. Im sure someone put it there as a joke and it was blown WAY out of proportion
Better break out the Charmin, expensive turd on the way!
This is considered art? Jesus christ..
This is why Republicans/Trump supporters hate us 🙄
When you read things like this it's really hard not to back anything that takes money away from the wealthy.
Its just a fucking banana ducktaped and thatd supposed to be art yeah right
The ‘valuable’ fruit can be found at Publix for $.69 per lb.
The Art of the Peel
Would You Do This At Home? DuctTapeBananaWall
Why in the world would someone spend $150k on one meal?
$150k was paid for the audacity and not anything to do with art.
The 1% will buy and do anything except helping the less fortunate
Does the purchaser get a refund?
The stupidity is amazing
Proof that America is an idiocracy.
No! Oh the humanity!
Here’s something for you... 2 reasons someone pays that much money for a banana taped to a board: 1. Eccentricity 2. MONEY LAUNDERING Now go do your jobs abc cnn nbc fox cbs nytimes WSJ
Publicity stunt.
Why not donate that money to a food charity instead of a “artist” that taped a banana to a wall Elitism = waste
Insane
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The classics must be rolling in their graves, what a joke.
Maybe the “ dark ages “ weren’t so dark in comparison
150 k for a banana as children are caged , there’s famine and hunger , I mean ... Is this progress ? Really ?
Absolute stupidity at its finest
Maybe someone will pay for this man's shit.
مين المتخلف الي هيحط 150 الف دولار في موزة ولصق!! 😳 Who can leave $ 150,000 in banana and paste !! 😳
The whole thing was a prank. Start to finish. No money ever changed hands. Not 1 penny.
A banana duct-taped to a wall is not art.
15 minutes of fame ridiculous!
Meanwhile, how many people died today because they had to ration insulin?
Tax the rich.
We’re really discussing an old banana that went for $150K......sad
All liars
I would have stuck the banana peel back onto the wall.
Can we stop calling every attention whore off the street an artist please
'New York-based performance artist'
caravaggio rises from the grave to hoot his approval
I predict a new 'art piece' will reveal itself in a golden toilet bringing the whole 'performance art' thing, full circle.💩
Illustration next to the phrase: More money than sense.
Qa
If only would report on real news. Like the EpsteinCoverup.
Why does the price keep going up? can't you verify anything before spewing it out?
I thought it was sold for 120,000
This is art.
When did the price change? First it was sold for 120.000 now its 150.000 this is how ABC loses its credibility, and why so many folks don’t believe the news today. There is no reason to lie about the price paid for the painting unless it was all lies in the first place.
It was full of black and brown spots caused by anthracnose.
Just when I though 2019 couldn't get any more 2019...
Don't you have some real news to report?
The highest level of stupidity
Excellent
Cattelan is an artist, this guy is just a man baby wannabe...
WTF ...... kids/humans are starving and you bought a $150,000 banana that was fucking duct taped to a wall for no reason ...
“Performance artist” eats a banana...I thought the story couldn’t get more dumb, I was mistaken. An EMP wouldn’t be so bad.
stop covering this. This is the DUMBEST story ever. Rich people spending money on a banana and duct tape. We should just take that money and buy some food for starving kids. The people who spent it don't deserve to have it.
I think the west has reached a pinnacle of stupid not seen before. Over $100k for a piece of 'art' that a kindergartener could've made, only to be eaten? Fir fucks sake.
Whatever...
There’s so much that could be said so I’ll just leave it there.
This was all really just a teaser for the film adaptation of 'Bonfire Of The Vanities II: They Never Learned'?
A hoax
Can I tape my banana on a blank wall & sell it?
That's one expensive bowel movement.
God, I am so over this.
I thought it was $120k not $150k
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