2024年11月21日 · NEW YORK — A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a...

2024年11月21日 · Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a conceptual artwork comprising a banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, sold on Wednesday for $6.24 million at a Sotheby's auction in New York.

Comedian is a 2019 artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Created in an edition of three, it appears as a fresh banana affixed to a wall with duct tape. As a work of conceptual art, it consists of a certificate of authenticity with detailed diagrams and instructions for its proper display.

2024年11月22日 · OCAD University instructor Erin Finley discusses the moment a conceptual art piece named Comedian — consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall — sold for $6.2M at an art auction in New York.

2019年12月10日 · Yes, anyone with basic motor skills can tape a banana to the wall. But this is conceptual art. So let’s consider the concept. “Back then, Cattelan was thinking of a sculpture that was shaped like...

2024年11月21日 · A banana duct-taped to a white wall — or an acclaimed piece of art, depending how you look at it — sold at a Sotheby's auction for $6.24 million Wednesday. Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" is...

2024年11月19日 · The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It first debuted in 2019 as an edition of three fruits at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, where it became a much-discussed sensation.

2024年5月17日 · A searing indictment on the state of modern art, a revolutionary subversion of the norm, or simply a potassium-rich fruit and some sticky tape? Nobody really knows, and they’ve never been able to agree, which is basically ‘Comedian’ in a …

2024年11月21日 · On the bustling, lively VIP morning of Art Basel in Miami Beach in 2019, fairgoers were stopped in their tracks by a curious single ripe banana stuck to the wall with duct tape at the booth of Perrotin gallery.

2024年11月21日 · A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall called Comedian has sold for $9.57 million at an auction in New York.