A banana taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an art auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The piece of conceptual art consisted of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall. The “Comedian” banana Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s duct-tape banana, called “Comedian”, was a phenomenon when it debuted in 2019 at Art Basel Miami Beach, as festivalgoers tried to make out whether the single yellow piece of fruit affixed to a white wall with silver duct tape was…
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