Duct taped banana sells at Sotheby's for $6 million

[Louis Weedman]

I hope it tasted really good! I'll be buying out all the bananas and duct tape at Walmart now and making my own.

For sale, I'll take $5 million each bargain price!

Ridiculous, I really hope it's a joke.

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2024/11/21/duct-taped-banana-auction-comedian/76477492007/

[Christian Kasprzyk]

If it’s a joke, it’s definitely a lesson the world needs to learn. You cant just do something so ungodly lazy and get by. Things take effort and the most effort put into this was driving somewhere to get the banana! I am part of gen Z, one of the most ridiculous generations yet and they all seem to idolize these people who do literally nothing!

[Michael Rathberger]

Beauty is in the eye of the beholder. Just ask my wife...

[Roger Borg]

Art is as much an idea as it labor or an act or action...

[Jim Kovar]

It was delivered yesterday.

It was scrumdillyumptious!

[Jim Kovar]

Wish I could've bought
       a bunch of 'em.

[Jim Kovar]

38 minutes ago, Jim Kovar said:

It was scrumdillyumptious!

Some say it looks even
   more apeeling now.

[Jim Roadt]

Moderators please move to buy sell trade section

[Anthony Lindsey]

I bid a " Hunert thou"

[Bob Peshoff]

21 hours ago, Jim Kovar said:

It was delivered yesterday.

It was scrumdillyumptious!

At least you got it before it was banana bread material

[Bob Peshoff]

"For many,'Comedian' is an object lesson in the excesses of the art world, the absurdity of the art market, and the gaping wealth inequalities that now define the global economy."

All of this is important to keep in mind when considering that Cattelan's "Comedian" is a single banana, reportedly purchased on the day of the auction for $0.35 according to the New York Times, and duct-taped to a blank wall.

[Tim Babcock]

The art world is one huge scam. This one I know is true. Blue and yellow on Canvas sells for over 45 million usd.. A 4 yo child could do this and most likely better. Although the bar is very low. I live near the Crystal Bridges Museum the Walton's put up. It has some really nice pieces but a the modern art is just stupid. I have seen canvas painted gray with one red dot in the center displayed, among other ridiculous things. Real art is Micheal Angelo, da Vinci and the Dutch masters. But art has devolved into anything from a cross upside down in a jar of urine to what looks like a test wall color you try to see what shade of paint you want for you house. Art today is the kings new cloths.

https://www.wsj.com/articles/sothebys-sells-rothko-for-46-5-million-1431486062

 

[Tim Babcock]

Doing a bit of research I found one of if not the dumbest things anyone could call art and actually sell to another dumbass. An Invisible sculpture. https://mymodernmet.com/invisible-sculpture-salvatore-garau/

[Louis Weedman]

1 hour ago, Tim Babcock said:

Doing a bit of research I found one of if not the dumbest things anyone could call art and actually sell to another dumbass. An Invisible sculpture. https://mymodernmet.com/invisible-sculpture-salvatore-garau/

That's definitely a scam being done right in our faces if I've ever seen one. 

[Jim Kovar]

On 11/27/2024 at 6:09 AM, Tim Babcock said:

The art world is one huge scam.

So, are you telling me
  my velvet Elvis ain't
worth a hunnert thou?

[Tim Babcock]

depends does it come with a black light tapped to it?

[Jim Kovar]

Art?...  It's all about
      interpretation.

[Jim Kovar]

On 11/25/2024 at 7:26 PM, Jim Roadt said:

Moderators please move to buy sell trade section

Jim, you know the rules,
the asking price must be
posted.

I just might be interested?

Cinder block wall included?

[George Durbin]

I thought it was another art piece by Hunter! I think some one from the Ukraine bought it!  Huh...

Edited December 3, 2024 by George Durbin

[Tim Babcock]

6 hours ago, George Durbin said:

I thought it was another art piece by Hunter! I think some one from the Ukraine bought it!  Huh...

You are pardoned for thinking that. LOL

[Jim Kovar]

8 hours ago, George Durbin said:

...another art piece by Hunter!

Would have never guessed
    Hunter Fan & Motor Co.
        diversified into art.

I learn sumptin' new
           each and every day!

[Paul Carmody]

A waste of money like that is obscene.

[Marc Sova]

When I was in art school me and a buddy used to go to the Stl art museum and stare intently at a fire extinguisher or a pull down alarm like it was some fancy art piece we were studying. Most contemporary art…I like to quip “I can draw better peeing the snow”. And it’s true about half the time. 

[Steve Cunningham]

True. And he paid $1.25 for the banana. As soon as a buyer bought it, the owner ate the banana.

[Lane Shirey]

Not even $1.25. You can get a small hand for that. 
 

I always marvel at the cost of bananas given they’re imported. They must grow there like dandelions do here. Lol