For those missing context, a banana taped to a wall was sold for $6.2M in auction earlier this week.
The artist bought the banana for $0.5 around the corner from the auction.
Might be worth throwing out in a couple of days’ time.
I could trade this banana into a 2 story home in Saskatchewan
Only if frittered. Like the brains of those who paid millions.
This is the ultimate utopia of dystopia. The only way is down.
If you add a sliced wholemeal loaf, a pack of unsalted butter, and a jar of crunchy peanut butter. I’m happy to offer £2 as long as the banana is just at the right point of maturation (mashy but not squishy)
😂 millions
2 pints in a Central London pub
Get it and show it to Elon musk. I’m sure he’d be stupid enough to buy it for millions.
Have you got a banana to scale the banana by any chance?
I’ll engage with this in earnest for one comment. There are reasons why this isn’t worth anything and the original banana is:
1) It’s a copycat. Copies aren’t worth what the originals are, mostly because of the factors in 2.
2) Art happens in context. The art world isn’t just a series of pretty pictures which take varying amounts of skill to produce. There’s a discourse. Look at art movements and art history as a single conversation over centuries, with one movement responding to another or one artist responding to another. In the last century or slightly more, there’s been an ongoing conversation within that discourse of ‘what is art?’, which is honestly hard to answer. Some of the artists that people find ridiculous are responding to that – there’s a straight line between Duchamp’s upside down urinal in 1917 to the banana on the wall, by way of Warhol’s ‘art is whatever you can get away with’. Do I like Warhol? No. Do I like Duchamp? Kind of. But if you want to genuinely engage with the art world rather than just pretending it’s all bullshit, you need to look at the discourse. Sure, some of it’s a joke but you know, the punchline is better when you know what the joke is about. The the location/setting for the joke meant that it became part of the discourse, which it wouldn’t if I just did it on my kitchen wall.
Tl;Dr: yes it’s a pisstake, but one in a long line of pisstakes and that’s why it’s valuable to some people.
It’s a forgery, a pretty good one but still worthless I’m afraid
Real locals know art. This is well worth a hearty investment.
“It’s just one banana, what could it cost, $10?”
If it’s SpaceX’s banana for scale, somehow salvaged from the Indian Ocean, then I’d say it’s worth a fortune. Museum-worthy, even! 😉
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You’d be bananas to miss out on it.
For those missing context, a banana taped to a wall was sold for $6.2M in auction earlier this week.
The artist bought the banana for $0.5 around the corner from the auction.
Might be worth throwing out in a couple of days’ time.
I could trade this banana into a 2 story home in Saskatchewan
Only if frittered. Like the brains of those who paid millions.
This is the ultimate utopia of dystopia. The only way is down.
If you add a sliced wholemeal loaf, a pack of unsalted butter, and a jar of crunchy peanut butter. I’m happy to offer £2 as long as the banana is just at the right point of maturation (mashy but not squishy)
😂 millions
2 pints in a Central London pub
Get it and show it to Elon musk. I’m sure he’d be stupid enough to buy it for millions.
Have you got a banana to scale the banana by any chance?
I’ll engage with this in earnest for one comment. There are reasons why this isn’t worth anything and the original banana is:
1) It’s a copycat. Copies aren’t worth what the originals are, mostly because of the factors in 2.
2) Art happens in context. The art world isn’t just a series of pretty pictures which take varying amounts of skill to produce. There’s a discourse. Look at art movements and art history as a single conversation over centuries, with one movement responding to another or one artist responding to another. In the last century or slightly more, there’s been an ongoing conversation within that discourse of ‘what is art?’, which is honestly hard to answer. Some of the artists that people find ridiculous are responding to that – there’s a straight line between Duchamp’s upside down urinal in 1917 to the banana on the wall, by way of Warhol’s ‘art is whatever you can get away with’. Do I like Warhol? No. Do I like Duchamp? Kind of. But if you want to genuinely engage with the art world rather than just pretending it’s all bullshit, you need to look at the discourse. Sure, some of it’s a joke but you know, the punchline is better when you know what the joke is about. The the location/setting for the joke meant that it became part of the discourse, which it wouldn’t if I just did it on my kitchen wall.
Tl;Dr: yes it’s a pisstake, but one in a long line of pisstakes and that’s why it’s valuable to some people.
It’s a forgery, a pretty good one but still worthless I’m afraid
Real locals know art. This is well worth a hearty investment.
“It’s just one banana, what could it cost, $10?”
If it’s SpaceX’s banana for scale, somehow salvaged from the Indian Ocean, then I’d say it’s worth a fortune. Museum-worthy, even! 😉
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