Installations by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan are famously provocative, but his signature work — a banana taped to a wall — fell prey to a basic impulse: the hunger it provoked in a South ...

Another year, another luxury art auction that sells off some gimmicky work for stupid amounts of money—and another crypto (con) artist at one end of the process. Late last month, an infamous 5 ...

Installations by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan are famously provocative, but his signature work — a banana taped to a wall — fell prey to a basic impulse: the hunger it provoked in a South Korean ...

Correction, Dec. 11, 2024: A prior version of this article bore the headline “The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is Actually a Dangerous Criminal.” To Slate’s knowledge ...

Though he would later become world famous as the buyer of Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian—the $6.2 million banana taped to a ... coin investors—including the guy who dropped $6 million on ...

The banana installation by artist Maurizio Cattelan evokes everything from slapstick comedy to global trade. But to a college student, it was a... Installations by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan ...

A crypto baron spent a whopping $6.2 million on a banana duct-taped to a wall — a conceptual artwork titled "Comedian" by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan — at a Sotheby's auction in New York ...