Banana duct taped to wall sells for $120,000 at Florida gallery

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Lunacy. Sheer lunacy. Is it a real banana? What happens when it rots?

We were in an art museum in Santa Fe a couple years ago, and on the wall was a blank canvas. Ummm… how is that art? I could replicated either of those. Would it still be art? Would my banana be worth $120,000? Cuz if that's the case, I'm all over it. Honey, What did you do with the duct tape? LOL!
 

I bet if someone taped a piece of dried turd on a blank canvas, someone would pay good money for it. It seems people don't know what to do with their money.

Van Gogh died penniless, yet one of his paintings sold for $82.5 million
The highest price paid for a van Gogh at auction was the $82.5 million paid in 1990 for his “Portrait of Dr. Gachet.”
He struggled with mental illness and remained poor and virtually unknown throughout his life.
Death Date: July 29, 1890
Birth Date: March 30, 1853

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Many years ago, a friend of ours wrote a satirical review of an "art show" consisting of 17 completely blank canvases mounted on the wall. He sounds like a snooty art critic, haughtily discussing whether the canvases are mounted in the correct chronological order, and whether they are attached to their frames with staples or tacks. It was hilarious then, and still is. He is gone now, but would have loved this banana!
 
What's most distressing about this story is that the buyer couldn't figure out a more useful way to spend $120K. He/she needs to tour a children's hospital, a Habitat for Humanity building site, an animal shelter, visit with Wounded Warriors personnel, etc.

Callous, wasteful spending like the purchaser's are what fuel many to suggest it's time enact a serious wealth tax.
 
When "art" sells for $120,000, it isn't art, but a financial transaction. What makes a piece of art worth that kind of money? Tax laws. Plus, it's a way of creating an investment, a tax exemption, and a way to hide illegal income. Art with these kind of price tags have very little to do with the artist ,or the artistic content; it's more about tax dodges, and money laundering
 
This work sold for $4.5 million at Christie's.

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Virgin Mary portrait using elephant dung sells for $4.5 ...
https://www.latimes.com/entertainme...elephant-dung-virgin-mary-20150701-story.html
Jul 1, 2015Virgin Mary portrait using elephant dung sells for $4.5 million Chris Ofili's portrait "The Holy Virgin Mary" sold at Christie's for about $4.5 million. (Andy Rain / EPA)
It also features pornographic cut-outs arranged around the biblical figure.
 
Robert59 said:
A piece of art that sold for $120,000 at a Florida gallery this week is drawing attention due to being a banana duct taped to a wall.
The Comedian, a piece by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, sold for $120,000 this week at Miami's Art Basel, and experts said the one remaining edition of the piece could sell for up to $150,000.
https://www.upi.com/Odd_News/2019/1...120000-at-Florida-gallery/9971575665161/?sl=1
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The old adage says, "A fool & his money are quickly parted". I have viewed art museums in Rome, the Vatican, Paris, London & Moscow. I have seen many great pieces of art that really impressed me; Mona Lisa, Sistine Chapel, Medici Chapel in Florence, etc. A banana taped with duct tape is not art. It says a lot about our "Dumb & Dumber Society". I have seen an orange squeezed onto paper. That too is not art. Makes me wonder about the artist, the buyer or anyone who looks at this & calls it art.
 
StarSong said:
What's most distressing about this story is that the buyer couldn't figure out a more useful way to spend $120K. He/she needs to tour a children's hospital, a Habitat for Humanity building site, an animal shelter, visit with Wounded Warriors personnel, etc.

Callous, wasteful spending like the purchaser's are what fuel many to suggest it's time enact a serious wealth tax.
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Yes, so many homeless people on the streets of North America & this idiot buy a banana for big money. Really? Someone is sick; real sick!
 
gennie said:
I read that the artist explained that the art of it is in watching it deteriorate. I'll take the art of a beautiful sunset instead, thank you.
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A co-worker told me once that her grandson liked to visit her because she served him ''rotten bananas'' (black bananas). LOL
 
Question: if the buyer liked it so much, why didn't they make their own. It looks like a simple thing to do.
You can use a real banana, replace it as it becomes rotten...
Just another example of stupidly- as in the Campbell Soup Cans....
 
The article I read said the banana was supposed to be eaten anyway. It said to replace it every 10 days. (Sounds overripe to me!)
 
It's frustrating because as I age I find I have a much greater appreciation for old school art ie oil paintings, drawings, sketches etc where it takes skill and attention to detail. I inherited some unknown artist oil painting where detail surpasses many of the greats. Can't even give it away(still got them I just don't want to see them go to waste) People don't even take the time to put stuff in a frame it's print posters now which teenagers tend to do.

It's a pop culture trendy poop pile posing as art now a day.

RIP actual artistry and skill
 
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