Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Maurizio Cattelan's hotly debated, fruit-based artwork just sold for six times initial expectations. "This is not just an artwork; ...

Oliver Barker hammered Maurizio Cattelan’s Comedian for $5.2 million ($6.2 million with fees) at Sotheby’s “The Now and Contemporary Auction” on November 20. Courtesy of Sotheby's With this sale, the ...

Mumbai: The art world’s favourite fruit snack is back in the headlines — and yes, it’s been eaten. Again. A cheeky visitor to the Pompidou-Metz museum in France took a literal bite out of Italian ...

NEW YORK — Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at ...

Every week, Artnet News brings you Wet Paint, a gossip column of original scoops. If you have a tip, email Annie Armstrong at [email protected]. Comedian actually feels Trumpish if you look at it from ...

Maurizio Cattelan’s banana artwork “The Comedian” gets devoured again, this time at Centre-Pompidou-Metz The piece has been eaten multiple times from a viral act by artist David Datuna in Miami to a ...

It’s happened again. Someone walked into a museum, spotted Maurizio Cattelan’s banana-taped-to-a-wall artwork, and decided to tuck in. This time, the setting was the Centre Pompidou-Metz in eastern ...

NEW YORK — In the Sotheby’s Auction House sale room — an intimate, carpeted seventh-floor auditorium on the Upper East Side — it’s not uncommon to see standing-room-only attendance. Or for the bidding ...

The art world went bananas over this artwork five years ago—and now it could be headed to your own home. Visitors take pictures of the work “Comedian” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Kevin Frayer ...

NEW YORK — A piece of conceptual art consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York on Wednesday. “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, was a ...

“Eating it at a press conference can also become a part of the artwork’s history,” Sun said of the event. “It’s much better than other bananas.” Maurizio Cattelan’s work debuted at Art Basel in 2019, ...