The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.
I too have a nearly perfect replica of this piece. I’m selling each piece, which is part of an extremely limited run of 1000 pieces in total produced this week on demand, signed and sealed in a Tupperware container for freshness, for $2,990 each, worldwide shipping is just another $299.
I don’t get the apeel.
I might be splitting hairs, but it’s appeal.
It’s a pun. A peel, like the skin on a banana.
As was mine, albeit a poor one.
Splitting as in banana split.
Well it seems the puns come in bunches.
It’s really just one of a limited number of licenses which allows the owner of the license to showcase the work and legally regard it as an official work from the artist who first came up with the idea. Anyone can tape a banana to a wall, but only a few can do so and say that it’s an ‘original’.
I don’t know if I can trust the license. Any way to make it burn a ton of electricity to function?
- who gives a shit if it’s original or derivative
- Tape a different fruit and it’s now a new original
I agree, it’s very absurd, and that’s part of the point. It’s also obvious too that someone gives a shit since they’re willing to shell out millions of dollars for it. And as far as taping another piece of fruit to the wall, it unlikely to do well because with modern and conceptual art, it’s all about who came up with the idea first.
Traditional art was just NFTs all along.
🌍🧑🚀🔫🧑🚀You mean it’s all money laundering?
You cannot stop idiots from being stupid.
Actually we are the idiots, because we just let them launder money
Money laundering
Yo I was about to comment this.
Like literally.
How do you transfer a huge amount of money.
Just get the receipient to create “art”
Instruct receipient to sell “art” for the amount of money
Voila, legal money laundering!
I don’t understand how buying art with 6.2 m in cash is not going to be suspicious though?
World gone mad.
The rich need more money laundering vehicles.
