That $6.2 million banana is a perfect symbol for our bloated economy
The $6.2 price tag for that banana “art” shows how a price can have no relation to value. Justin Sun’s purchase of it is more ...
Who’s Laughing Now? Banana-as-Art Sells for $6.2 Million at Sotheby’s
A conceptual artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, “Comedian,” is just a fruit-stand banana taped on the wall. But 7 bidders were ...
Inside Sotheby’s $6 million sale of a banana
In the Sotheby’s Auction House sale room — an intimate, carpeted seventh-floor auditorium on the Upper East Side — it’s not ...
NYC fruit vendor who sold $6.2M banana for pennies is still fuming: ‘I got 35 cents’
Shah Alam, 74, recently learned that a piece of his produce was used in Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan’s piece titled ...
Man Who Bought Duct-Taped Banana Artwork for $6.2M Eats It: ‘I Wanted to Become a Part of History’
Justin Sun — the crypto entrepreneur and Chinese billionaire who purchased the viral banana-taped-to-a-wall painting for more ...
The Guy Who Bought (and Ate) That Banana Art Is Actually a Dangerous Criminal
On the surface, it’s a funny curiosity of a story. But Justin Sun’s involvement takes this into something far more insidious.
The Sidewalk Fruit Vendor Who Sold a $6.2 Million Banana for 25 Cents
A 74-year-old immigrant who works outside Sotheby’s shares a basement in the Bronx and works 12-hour shifts. He was stunned ...
Duct-taped banana goes for $6.2 million in Sotheby's art auction
A piece of art that is little more than a banana duct-taped to a wall sold at auction for $6.2 million on Wednesday to ...
How much did the duct-taped banana sell for at Sotheby’s? Well over the expected $1 million
The buyer, China-born crypto entrepreneur and Justin Sun, spent $6.2 million on the piece by artist Maurizio Cattelan Access ...
Crypto mogul eats banana he bought for $6.2 million and offers to buy 100,000 more from fruit vendor
Upon hearing how much Sun bought the fruit for, the vendor, Shah Alam, was in disbelief. Sun then promised to buy 100,000 ...
Bangladeshi fruit vendor moved to tears as banana he sold for 35 cents fetches millions
Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi fruit vendor in Manhattan, was shocked to discover that a banana he sold for 35 cents ...
A banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at a Sotheby's art auction
Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian," a banana duct-taped to a wall, was sold at Sotheby's in New York on Wednesday for $6.2 ...