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Banana taped to a wall sells for $6.2 million in New York

A fresh banana taped to a wall -- a work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan -- was bought for $6.2 million on Nov. 20, 2024 by a cryptocurrency entrepreneur at a New York auction. The debut of the edible creation entitled 'Comedian' at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach in 2019 sparked controversy and raised questions about whether it should be considered art -- Cattelan's stated aim.

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00:30Katalan is elevating something that is so banal into something that is so extraordinary.
00:39It is, of course, a conceptual work of art, but it is in line with centuries of artists
00:45who dealt with similar ideas, pushed similar notions forward, and really upended the definition
00:54of what art could be.

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