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The Latest Breaking News from Maurizio Cattelan

Crypto-tycoon who bought infamous banana artwork for $6.2million eats fruit in bizarre stunt

Justin Sun bought the Maurizio Cattelan banana artwork for millions - and then ate it

Evening Standard

Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m

Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week

The Guardian - UK

Crypto Boss Eats Banana Art He Bought For $6.2 Million

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun on Friday fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2 million on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall -- by eating the fruit.

International Business Times

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Heartbreaking reaction of the 74-year-old banana seller who sold 35c fruit that became $6 million artwork

A silver duct-taped banana, once sold at a Manhattan fruit stand where bananas are sold for 35 cents each, went for millions at a Sotheby’s auction last week

The Independent UK

A banana duct-taped to a wall has sold for £4.9 million – part of the evolving relationship between art and finance

On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, entitled Comedian, is not a conventional painting or sculpture. It consists of an ordinary banana, duct-taped to a wall at a jaunty angle. The hammer price? A staggering US$6.2…

The Conversation

The Observer view: Selling a piece of fruit for £4m isn’t bananas, it’s decadent. Art is better than this

The sale of Maurizio Cattelan’s work, Comedian, to a crypto entrepreneur is a grim concept that has little to do with disruption

The Guardian - UK

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun buys $6 million banana—and plans to eat it unless Elon Musk wants to send it to space

Sun outbid six others for the iconic work.

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Fruit fancies: How the art world went bananas for a $6.2m piece of fruit taped to a wall

Last night, cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun bought a banana for $6.2m. Okay it wasn’t any old banana, it was a controversial piece of modern art, titled The Comedian, which was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. And the work is a supermarket banana taped to the wall.

Evening Standard

Chinese Crypto Founder Buys Banana Taped to Wall for $6 Million, Says He Will Eat It

A Chinese crypto founder just bought a banana taped to a wall for $6 million, and said he plans to eat it as part of a "unique artistic experience."

Latin Times

Duct-taped banana artwork sells at auction for almost £5m to crypto entrepreneur

Justin Sun purchased a certificate of authenticity that gives him the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it “Comedian.”

Evening Standard

Banana Taped To A Wall Sells For $6.2 Mn In New York

A fresh banana taped to a wall -- a provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan -- was bought for $6.2 million on Wednesday by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur at a New York auction, Sotheby's announced in a statement.

International Business Times

Banana duct-taped to wall bought at art auction for $6.2m by crypto mogul who plans to eat it

Cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun identified himself as the buyer, pledging to ‘personally eat the banana’

The Independent UK

The right to duct-tape a banana to a wall for art has sold for $6.2 million

The buyer own a certificate that gives them the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it ‘Comedian’

The Independent UK

$5.2m for a duct-taped banana: has the buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s artwork slipped up?

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought one of three editions of the viral 2019 work, describing it as ‘a cultural phenomenon’. But what does he get for his money?

The Guardian - UK

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The Independent UK

A duct-taped banana is now worth $1 million

The fruit is replaced regularly, along with the tape

The Guardian - AU

Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-taped ‘banana’ artwork estimated to fetch up to US$1.5m at New York auction

The viral artwork, involving a banana stuck to a wall, is once again in the spotlight, as Sotheby’s prepares to auction it for an eye-watering sum

The Conversation

What makes an artist great? 5 reasons why the likes of Goya, Frida Kahlo and Da Vinci are still revered today

How can we explain, in simple terms, what makes a great artist? This question is more complex than it seems, as it forces us to think more broadly about what art is and who artists are. Above all, it forces us to reflect on what makes one artist more important…

The Independent UK

Gold and gunfire: Italian artist Cattelan's latest satirical work is a bullet-riddled golden wall

For a month now, visitors to a Manhattan gallery have been taking selfies of their reflections in artist Maurizio Cattelan's gleaming gold-plated wall, pockmarked by more than 20,000 rounds of ammunition

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The Guardian - US

From $120,000 bananas to gold toilets: art provocateur Maurizio Cattelan is back

The Italian artist, who has gained fame by poking fun at the art world, opened his first solo gallery show in over two decades, now with a more serious edge

AAP

Worn undies and fresh banana feature in NGV blockbuster

The NGV's Triennial exhibition features work from Yoko Ono, couture house Schiaparelli and even a banana taped to a wall by Maurizio Cattelan.

The Hindu

Ticket to a nonsensical world? | Inside Toiletpaper’s largest show, ‘Run As Slow As You Can’, in Mumbai

Inside Toiletpaper and founders Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari’s investigation of “our hyper consumption of imagery”

Evening Standard

Longchamp’s Sloane Ranger Le Pliage bag is having a comeback (yes, really)

The Princess of Wales wore one to graduate from St Andrews and Alexa Chung loved them in 2011. Now TikTok and quirky collabs have seen a relic of the noughties become the ninth hottest product on sale today

The Guardian - UK

Experience: I ate a $120,000 banana

There was no alarm protecting the artwork – a banana taped to the wall – and nobody tried to stop me when I peeled it

The Guardian - UK

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Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia, plus a few jokes every Thursday. How will you fare?

Creative Bloq

This modern art piece is worth $120,000, and someone just ate it

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