He’s got the Midas flush. Art world troll Maurizio Cattelan took the world by storm after his notorious duct-taped banana ...

The billionaire Steve Cohen is reported to have purchased the 18-karat flushable sculpture by Maurizio Cattelan in 2017. It’s ...

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 ...

Five years later, Justin Sun, founder of the cryptocurrency platform Tron (TRX), paid more than 40 times that upper price at ...

HONG KONG, China (WKRC/CNN Newsource) - The billionaire who spent over $6 million on an art installation of a banana duct taped to a wall celebrated his purchase by eating the fruit. Chinese ...

The art world’s gone bananas. Five years after its creation, Maurizio Cattelan’s “Comedian” — consisting of a banana duct-taped to a wall — could fetch an eye-popping $1.5 million when it is auctioned ...

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 ...

“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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...