jimmied - 2-12-2024 at 23:56
Crypto entrepreneur eats banana artwork bought for $6.2m
A Chinese-born cryptocurrency entrepreneur has followed through on his promise to eat the banana from a $6.2m (£4.9m) artwork he bought last week.
Justin Sun outbid six others to claim Maurizio Cattelan's infamous 2019 work Comedian - a banana duct-taped to a wall - at Sotheby's auction house in
New York.
He ate the fruit during a news conference in Hong Kong where he used the moment to draw parallels between the artwork and cryptocurrency.
The banana is regularly replaced before exhibitions, with Mr Sun buying the right to display the installation along with a guide on how to replace the
fruit.
It has been eaten twice before - first by a performance artist in 2019 and again by a South Korean student in 2023 - but neither paid any money to do
so, let alone $6.2m.
"Eating it at a press conference can also become a part of the artwork's history," Mr Sun said.
"It's much better than other bananas," he added.
more here https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cqj051glrr9o
Eddie RUKidding - 3-12-2024 at 05:17
Maybe we could sell them a bowl of Nuts for $3mil
