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David Datuna: Artist eats $120,000 banana art at gallery
BBC ^ | December 8 2019 | BBC

Posted on 12/08/2019 5:43:13 AM PST by Kriggerel

Georgian-born American artist David Datuna has eaten a banana used in an art work by Maurizio Cattelan, which had sold for $120,000 (£91,000).

The artwork, titled Comedian, was on display at Art Basel in Miami, one of the world's most high-profile art fairs.

(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.com ...


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To: Kriggerel

The person who paid the $120,000 is Biden-stupid. Except that he’s counting on future buyers being dumber than Biden. And he’s probably right.


21 posted on 12/08/2019 6:53:08 AM PST by samtheman (Art 2, Sec. 3, US Constitution, obligates President to fight corruption in foreign aid.)
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To: Kriggerel

And there are artists at that show who have worked months to get their pieces done. And this clown and his cohorts make a mockery of it.


22 posted on 12/08/2019 6:59:58 AM PST by Vermont Lt
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To: Kriggerel

A true art aficionado would know that bananas are blasé.

Turnips are art.


23 posted on 12/08/2019 7:04:00 AM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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To: Kriggerel

He was just disarming the sculpture.


24 posted on 12/08/2019 7:04:58 AM PST by Zathras
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To: blueunicorn6

A true art aficionado would know that bananas are blasé.

Turnips are art.

Some might say the potato is the most proletarian of vegetables, but the turnip is truly the most woke proletarian vegetable of all. Humble. Grows in the Earth, and is obviously more connected to Gaia than banana; perched way up “above it all”, out of touch.

People actually like bananas. Even babies like bananas. Turnips, on the other hand, are merely tolerated as a vegetable. No one is even sure they’re good for you. Turnips are just there. Unassuming, bland, without pretense.

Bananas Foster. Banana splits. Banana cream pie. The banana reeks of pretense and bourgeois attitude! “Turnip cream eclairs”, said no one, ever! Now there is a vegetable you eat, not because you want to, but because you have to. The buffet has run out of every other vegetable, leaving you no choice. It is the vegetable that’s left when even the Brussel sprouts are gone. Could their be a more fit example of the socialist model?


25 posted on 12/08/2019 7:47:34 AM PST by Flick Lives (MSM, the Enemy of the People since 1898)
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To: bert
Searching For Clues was exhibited in the Hirschorn Museum and was offered at $85K.

I visited the Hirshhorn Museum in October. The exhibits included a diorama entitled "Pickett's Charge," which consisted of parallel streaks of paint smeared along the wall of the circular building. There was also an exhibit entitled "color wheel," which consisted of paint splotches of various colors splattered on the wall. Other than a curiosity entitled "Video Flag," an American flag made up of flashing video monitors, I thought the exhibits were ugly and pure garbage.

26 posted on 12/08/2019 7:51:26 AM PST by Fiji Hill
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To: Kriggerel

Supposing the banana was still part of the “art” and we fast forward a year later...


27 posted on 12/08/2019 7:55:36 AM PST by AndyTheBear
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To: blueunicorn6

Did you mean “passe?”

“blasse” means apathetic.


28 posted on 12/08/2019 8:05:09 AM PST by txrefugee
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To: samtheman

Ah, but this is the real banana.


29 posted on 12/08/2019 8:09:49 AM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust the Plan.)
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To: Fiji Hill

I have not been to the Hirschorn in many years but in past times I made several visits. It is one of my favorites on the mall. I learned to eat bagles with cream cheese there

Another sculpture I remember was a to full scale Popsicle carved from white marble with authentic wooden sticks.

For sure there is some very weird stuff exhibited but in the permanent displays and the outside sculpture, there is real art worth viewing


30 posted on 12/08/2019 8:30:48 AM PST by bert ( (KE. NP. N.C. +12) Progressives are existential American enemies)
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To: Kriggerel

I taped a banana to the wall with duct tape in the back room of the store I work. It was stolen within the hour.


31 posted on 12/08/2019 8:37:51 AM PST by School of Rational Thought
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To: Kriggerel
A fool and his money are soon parted.

32 posted on 12/08/2019 8:38:55 AM PST by BitWielder1 (I'd rather have Unequal Wealth than Equal Poverty.)
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To: Zathras

I found the second artists work more appealing.


33 posted on 12/08/2019 9:03:02 AM PST by JoeRed
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To: Kriggerel

Whoever paid for this idiocy is really the stupid one. He bought a banana plus duct tape, deluding himself into thinking that he had bought a work of art.

The smart one is the one who spent 50 cents to tape a banana to a canvas and then sold it to some idiot for $120,000.


34 posted on 12/08/2019 9:11:49 AM PST by I want the USA back (If free speech is taken away, dumb and silent we are led, like sheep to the slaughter: G Washington)
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To: Kriggerel

I’m sure the whole thing is a put-up job from start to finish.


35 posted on 12/08/2019 9:24:17 AM PST by karnage
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To: Kriggerel

Watch him try to sell the poop.


36 posted on 12/08/2019 10:14:40 AM PST by NonValueAdded ("Sorry, your race card has been declined. Can you present any other form of argument?")
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To: BradyLS

I like what you did there.


37 posted on 12/08/2019 10:18:28 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: JoeRed

The bite was taken before security noticed the second artist slipped into the exhibit like a banana spider on skates.


38 posted on 12/08/2019 11:19:35 AM PST by piasa (Attitude adjustments offered here free of charge.)
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To: Yardstick

;-)


39 posted on 12/08/2019 12:53:29 PM PST by BradyLS (DO NOT FEED THE BEARS!)
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To: Kriggerel

I suspect this 120K banana art was a hoax from the get go.


40 posted on 12/09/2019 3:55:34 PM PST by nvcdl
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