Is this daft.

[W200]

That Viral Banana Duct-Taped to a Wall? It Just Sold for $6.2 Million

Maurizio Cattelan’s perishable piece soared above the pre-auction estimate of $1.5 million and was the subject of an intense bidding battle at a Sotheby's auction on Wednesday

www.smithsonianmag.com

Apparently someone thinks that a banana taped to a wall is worth six million dollars

 

[Howth Head]

Just when you think the world can't get any more insane...along comes this!

The banana “transcends geographies, language, understanding, cultural differences,” David Galperin, head of contemporary art for Sotheby’s, told the Washington Post's Ashley Fetters Maloy after the auction. And the high price tag it commanded “spoke to its universality, the way it kind of pierces through the cultural zeitgeist to the very center,” he added.

 

[Cervelo]

And sold in your local Dunnes supermarket for approximately 30 cent, as they say "Better Value Everyday"

Now where did I leave that roll of Duck Tape??

 

[odyssey06]

And sold in your local Dunnes supermarket for approximately 30 cent, as they say "Better Value Everyday"

Now where did I leave that roll of Duck Tape??

Due to an increase in the price of Ducks, Duck Tape no longer contains any Duck.

 

[Purple]

The banana “transcends geographies, language, understanding, cultural differences,” David Galperin, head of contemporary art for Sotheby’s, told the Washington Post's Ashley Fetters Maloy after the auction. And the high price tag it commanded “spoke to its universality, the way it kind of pierces through the cultural zeitgeist to the very center,” he added.

It's times like this that I miss the Fast Show.

 

[Salvadore]

I have high hopes for my recently completed work “week old broccoli in compost bin”.

 

[Purple]

I have high hopes for my recently completed work “week old broccoli in compost bin”.

I'd say it stinks.

 

[Peanuts20]

Speaking as someone who once wasted 2 hrs of his life in the Tate Modern on Bankside in London, this does not surprise me. Its up there with the pile of bricks or the urinal or the unmade bed.

 

[odyssey06]

Speaking as someone who once wasted 2 hrs of his life in the Tate Modern on Bankside in London, this does not surprise me. Its up there with the pile of bricks or the urinal or the unmade bed.

Modern art = random stuff you might trip over in a London student flat \ bedsit at a party

 

[Purple]

Speaking as someone who once wasted 2 hrs of his life in the Tate Modern on Bankside in London, this does not surprise me. Its up there with the pile of bricks or the urinal or the unmade bed.

Modern art = random stuff you might trip over in a London student flat \ bedsit at a party

You pair of absolute philistines.

 

[michaelm]

Speaking as someone who once wasted 2 hrs of his life in the Tate Modern on Bankside in London

I had a good laugh all the way round there in 2012. It's free, so there's that. Good views from the 10th floor viewing gallery also. I took a photo of Richard Tuttle's 8th Paper Octagonal 1970 and its hilarious blurb, which I have on my Wall of Pants.

 

[Peanuts20]

You pair of absolute philistines.

And proud of it, give me the Crawford in Cork any day of the week

 

[mathepac]

Is it the Tate Modern that featured yer woman's dirty knickers beside her unmade bed?

 

[joe sod]

Is it the Tate Modern that featured yer woman's dirty knickers beside her unmade bed?

Yes, the Tracy Emin masterpiece, also all the Jeff goons nonsense art in the US with his "balloon dog" and formaldehyde dead animals in glass case malarkey