Banana Duct Taped to Wall Sells For 6.2 million

[Beezer]

https://www.npr.org/2024/11/21/nx-s...anana-sells-for-6-2-million-at-an-art-auction

 

[Beezer]

I'd duct tape my own 'banana' to a wall for 6.2 million.

(Actually, I think there are websites for that.)

 

[Debrah N.]

Takes the cake (banana bread?) for being the stupidest thing I've heard this week! $6.2 million that could have gone to help desperate kids somewhere.

 

[stretch5881]

Ok, that's the stupidest subject that I've read about in a while.
Some of the human race is really brain damaged.

 

[Paladin1950]

That's almost as dumb as someone paying 44 billion for Twitter.

That reminds me of a story I heard years ago. John Lennon went to Yoko Ono's art exhibit. One had an apple in it. So he took the apple, bit a big piece out of it, and then put it back.

 

[hawkdon]

And to think i once heard a local artist say, on the news live,
"without art, our whole world would collapse"!!!!!

 

[WhatInThe]

In the eyes of the beholder...

But what does that person see. It's supposed to represent what again?

 

[Packerjohn]

Yes, this proves the world is going mad! Stupid begets stupid.

 

[Nathan]

Must be nice to have that much money to throw away on silly stuff. Reminds me of the grilled cheese sandwich that had the face of Jesus on it, that sold for [$$$] on ebay, a few years back.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

A few years ago, my ex & I went to a museum of moder art. We wandered a round. And I saw that someone must have smashed into a plaster wall , because there was a gash in the wall, and crushed plaster all over the floor. I thought someone might trip and fall. I couldn't find anybody to tell them about it. But I found the janitor's closet, and was about the brush the plaster away, when I noticed a sign saying the gash and crumbled plaster was a work of "ART", and way more worth more than I was.
And I almost dumped it in the trash.

 

[Paco Dennis]

It's a Warhol thing. Like the soup can. It signifies the banality that art has been subjugated in our culture?

 

[Rose65]

I can't stop laughing. I will cry if I do.

Foolishness, all is foolishness.

 

[Rose65]

A few years ago, my ex & I went to a museum of moder art. We wandered a round. And I saw that someone must have smashed into a plaster wall , because there was a gash in the wall, and crushed plaster all over the floor. I thought someone might trip and fall. I couldn't find anybody to tell them about it. But I found the janitor's closet, and was about the brush the plaster away, when I noticed a sign saying the gash and crumbled plaster was a work of "ART", and way more worth more than I was.
And I almost dumped it in the trash.

Pity you didn't.

 

[Pepper]

The punk that bought it is an asshole.

 

[Rose65]

Must be nice to have that much money to throw away on silly stuff. Reminds me of the grilled cheese sandwich that had the face of Jesus on it, that sold for [$$$] on ebay, a few years back.

Such things are a big mystery. After all nobody knows what Jesus looked like.

 

[Pepper]

Such things are a big mystery. After all nobody knows what Jesus looked like.

If the Shroud of Turin is real, then yes, yes we do.

 

[VaughanJB]

I wonder why art bothers people so much. Who looks at a Van Gogh and says, "That's just a load of paint splashed on a canvas"?

Art is supposed to challenge us, make us think, and to set our minds racing. What this art isn't, patently, is a "duct taped banana". If that were true, we'd all make one tonight and sell it for millions. I'm not impressed, nor bothered by this story. It made me think, but the last thing I thought was its materials.

 

[VaughanJB]

Such things are a big mystery. After all nobody knows what Jesus looked like.

Hell, some can't agree what color his skin was!

 

[Naturally]

You don't even actually get the banana and duct tape. You get a certificate that entitles and authorizes you to replicate the art in the name of the artist. Bananas don't last long and have to be replaced.

 

[Pepper]

Hell, some can't agree what color his skin was!

He certainly wasn't a blue eyed blond unless he was albino.

 

[Rose65]

You don't even actually get the banana and duct tape. You get a certificate that entitles and authorizes you to replicate the art in the name of the artist. Bananas don't last long and have to be replaced.

Fool and money are soon parted.

 

[Pepper]

Fool and money are soon parted.

I'd like to see the buyer one day on skid row asking people "Buddy, can you spare a dime?"

 

[Pepper]

 

[debodun]

Art is what you make it.

 

[fuzzybuddy]

I usually don't a few million to toss around. So, I'm not sure how you do this, but you buy art at an super inflated price, then you either donate it, or sell it depending if you want to cut your tax rate, or launder the cash you have. I don't have this problem.