NEW YORK — A banana taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an art auction in New York on Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. The piece of ...

Justin Sun purchased edition #2 of the Comedian at Sotheby’s auction. The bidding started at $800,000 and swiftly moved to $5 ...

Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan went into an art museum in Miami Beach and displayed a banana duct taped to a wall.

The spot is a reference to a much-circulated art world story. In 2019 artist Maruzio Cattelan debuted “Comedian,” a new piece of conceptual art at Art Basel Miami. The work quickly made headlines, ...

which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. The piece, which has been described as a commentary on the world of art, exists in three versions, with the second version being sold to ...

A banana duct-taped to a wall says a lot about today’s art market, according to Carroll School of Management Associate Professor of Marketing Henrik Hagtvedt, author of the just-released Money and ...

A 35-year-old man was sentenced to 20 years in prison after pleading guilty to aggravated sexual battery against a minor. A juvenile is now charged with two counts of second-degree murder after ...

An art installation of a banana duct taped to a wall that was previously hailed as a 'defiant work of pure genius' has sold at Sotheby's in New York for $6.2 million. Italian artist Maurizio ...

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 ...