{"id":14282,"date":"2025-07-21T00:04:06","date_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:04:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14282"},"modified":"2025-07-21T00:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T00:04:06","slug":"worlds-priciest-banana-gets-eaten-in-france","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/?p=14282","title":{"rendered":"World&#8217;s priciest banana gets eaten in France"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A visitor to a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth millions of dollars taped to a wall last week, exhibitors said on Friday, in the latest such consumption of the conceptual artwork.<\/p>\n<p>Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan \u2013 whose provocative creation entitled Comedian was bought for $6.2 million in New York last year \u2013 said he was disappointed the person did not also eat the skin and the tape.<\/p>\n<p>After the hungry visitor struck on Saturday last week, &#8220;security staff rapidly and calmly intervened,&#8221; the Pompidou-Metz museum in eastern France said.<\/p>\n<p>The work was &#8220;reinstalled within minutes&#8221;, it added.<\/p>\n<p>Cattelan noted the banana-eater had &#8220;confused the fruit for the work of art&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Instead of eating the banana with its skin and duct tape, the visitor just consumed the fruit,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p>Cattelan&#8217;s edible creation has sparked controversy ever since it made its debut at the 2019 Art Basel show in Miami Beach. He has explained the banana work as a commentary on the art market, which he has criticised in the past for being speculative and failing to help artists.<\/p>\n<p>The New York Post said the asking price of $120,000 for Comedian in 2019 was evidence that the market was &#8220;bananas&#8221; and the art world had &#8220;gone mad&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun last year forked out $6.2 million for the work, then ate it in front of cameras.<\/p>\n<p>As well as his banana work, Cattelan is also known for producing an 18-carat, fully functioning gold toilet called America that was offered to Donald Trump during his first term in the White House.<\/p>\n<p>A British court in March found two men guilty of stealing it during an exhibition in 2020 in the United Kingdom, from an 18th-century stately home that was the birthplace of wartime prime minister Winston Churchill.<\/p>\n<p>It was split up into parts and none of the gold was ever recovered.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A visitor to a French museum bit into a fresh banana worth millions of dollars taped to a wall last week, exhibitors said on Friday, in the latest such consumption of the conceptual artwork. Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan \u2013 whose provocative creation entitled Comedian was bought for $6.2 million in New York last year \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-english-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14282"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14282\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14282"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14282"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ipp-news.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14282"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}