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WATCH: A Performance Artist ATE That $120,000 Banana ‘Art’ Taped To A Miami Wall

Emily Zanotti
WATCH: A Performance Artist ATE That $120,000 Banana ‘Art’ Taped To A Miami Wall
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A contemporary art piece titled, “The Comedian,” which sold for a staggering $120,000 at Miami’s Art Basel festival this week, is now in a different artist’s stomach, according to reports.

“The Comedian” was an “installation” meant, ostensibly, to make fun of the art world’s obsession with banal and uninspired works, according to its creator, Maurizio Cattelan, but most viewers saw it as simply a rotting banana duct taped to a wall.

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