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Related: Culture Forums, Support ForumsFollow-up on the 120K "art" banana story
Someone ate a really expensive snack at Art Basel Saturday afternoon to the tune of $120,000.
For one banana.
By now you have probably heard of the now world-famous banana duct-taped to Emmanuel Perrotins outer gallery wall at Art Basel Miami Beach. The piece that sold to an art collector for $120,000.
The $120,000 banana a real, rather ripe and edible one is the work of Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan and titled Comedian. The work comes with a Certificate of Authenticity, and owners are told that they can replace the banana, as needed.
Instrctions on how to replace the banana are not included.
But New York-based performance artist David Datuna ate the banana at around 1:45 p.m. in front of a convention center full of art lovers, according to gallery representatives.
https://www.miamiherald.com/entertainment/visual-arts/art-basel/article238148809.html
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Follow-up on the 120K "art" banana story (Original Post)
packman
Dec 2019
OP
If it came with ice cream, whipped cream, and a cherry, I'd buy it in a split.
Beakybird
Dec 2019
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Dagstead Bumwood
(3,528 posts)1. Only $120,000?
Jesus, we're doomed.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)6. The "artist" knows his marks, tho.
More power to him. Wonder if pineapple or orange will be his next masterpiece.
Dagstead Bumwood
(3,528 posts)8. Perhaps both.
Or, maybe he'll trip in an alley, fall into a pile, of garbage, and then sell the resulting shirt for $250,000. I'm rooting for him.
Mike 03
(16,616 posts)2. Some day a banana might be worth that, but not yet thankfully.
Are bananas going extinct? A deadly fungus is infecting new farms
https://www.today.com/food/are-bananas-going-extinct-deadly-fungus-infecting-new-farms-t160747
A deadly plant fungus has begun to infect banana crops in a region experts have long feared would be especially susceptible to disease.
On Thursday, the Colombian agriculture and livestock authority (ICA) declared a national state of emergency after a new strain of the Panama disease (Tropical Race 4, which known in the science world as TR4), was identified at several banana farms on the country's coastal region. Since Central and South America are home to the world's biggest markets for growing and exporting bananas, the impact of a widespread infection would be detrimental to the fruit's global supply.
5X
(3,971 posts)3. a deadly fungus has infected the art world
causes brain melt down and accepting of anything as art.
dixiegrrrrl
(60,010 posts)7. That's the 2nd banana plant disease I/ve heard about in the last few years.
And points to the problem of monoculture, a problem which has been known for decades.
Beakybird
(3,329 posts)4. If it came with ice cream, whipped cream, and a cherry, I'd buy it in a split.
packman
(16,296 posts)5. Oh, that's bad