Sotheby’s confirmed to CNN that neither the tape nor, thankfully, the banana are the originals. “‘Comedian’ is a conceptual artwork, and the actual physical materials are replaced with ...

A Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur has eaten a banana from a $6.2million (£4.9million) artwork he purchased at Sotheby's auction house in New York last week. Justin Sun consumed the fruit ...

(image courtesy Sotheby’s) This was not just any banana, of course, but rather one selected for artist Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” (2019), his notoriously sparse artwork featuring the ...

At another exhibition at Seoul’s Leeum Museum of Art in 2023, the banana was eaten again ... drawn to Comedian because it’s not just an artwork—it’s a cultural phenomenon that challenges ...

The banana is an artwork titled “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. The buyer Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, plans to eat it. Photo: Sotheby's/Reuters ...

Impro jokingly claims his banana “masterpieces” are worth £24.8m and could fund a new church roof for Sonning. Cattelan’s Comedian is a conceptual artwork consisting of a single banana duct ...

He subsequently ate the banana. (The banana was the center of a 2019 conceptual artwork, “Comedian,” by the noted artist prankster Maurizio Cattelan. It comes with a certificate of ...

BETHLEHEM, Pa. - Artwork honoring Black heroes is being showcased in the Lehigh Valley. The mayors of Allentown, Bethlehem, and Easton came together at the Banana Factory Monday to present ...

Chris Pratt and Chris Hemsworth get up to some art theft and induct Kris Jenner into the Chris club in a cheeky new ad for Super Bowl 2025.