There was said to be a recent art auction, specifically Sotheby's art auction in New York, where a banana taped to the wall with duck tape was worth and sold $6.2 million dollars The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. It first debuted in 2019 as an edition of three fruits at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair, where it became a much-discussed sensation." It was also claimed that a cryptocurrency entrepreneur, Justin Sun was the one who paid over $6 million for the piece of produce just because it was "duck taped to a wall." Skeptics are curious why this banana is considered modern art and if this going to far in terms of expressing "creativity" to which some responded asking to question "What truly defines art" Sotheby’s head of contemporary art, David Galperin says: “What Cattelan is really doing is turning a mirror to the contemporary art world and asking questions, provoking thought about how we ascribe value to artworks, what we define as an artwork." While some find it funny: “It would be hard to come up with a better, simple symbol of global trade and all of its exploitations than the banana,” Cooper Jones said. If “Comedian” is about making people think about their moral complicity in the production of objects they take for granted, then it’s “at least a more useful tool or it’s at least an additional sort of place to go in terms of the questions that this work could be asking,” she said. I find it hard to believe that is under the definition of modern art and actually sold for $6.2 million.
