Banana duct-taped to a wall sells for $6.2m at auction
The controversial art piece, called Comedian, has been bought by a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. After laying out millions, he says he's going to eat the banana.
Now Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON, has paid $6.2m at an auction for a certificate of authenticity that gives him the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it "Comedian."
The controversial art piece, called Comedian, has been bought by a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur. After laying out millions, he says he's going to eat the banana.
Now Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform TRON, has paid $6.2m at an auction for a certificate of authenticity that gives him the authority to duct-tape a banana to a wall and call it "Comedian."
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Back in the 1970s I was with a group of friends looking round an exhibition of visual and conceptual art by university students. The usual stuff, some of it a bit interesting: things photographed from odd angles, flippant social commentary, a lot of "peace not war" themes.
We turned a corner and found a big pile of junk and litter, as if workmen had been busy and just stacked everything up and departed. A step-ladder, some old crisp packets, piles of bent nails in a film of paint on a sheet of cardboard. A pity, we thought, that they hadn't tidied it all away properly so the public couldn't see it. Or maybe, one of us said, we had taken a wrong turning...
Then, all of us at the same time, we realised.
Justin Sun.
That's what my dear old dad used to say when I rang to see if he was home okay after one of our regular six pint sessions.
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