A $5 MILLION DOLLAR SNACK
Written by Lola Narawa on November 30, 2024
Ever thought of buying a single Banana for $5 million dollars?
No well someone did. The Banana featured as an art piece that was featured at the Sotheby’s Auction house in Manhattan .
The Banana became a centerpiece of an art exhibit by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, who duct taped the curved fruit to a wall and called it ‘COMEDIAN’.
The banana buyer was one Justin Sun, a Chinese-born cryptocurrency guy, and after purchasing the particularly pricey source of potassium he promised that he would eat it and that’s exactly what he’s done.
At a very expensive hotel in Hong Kong and with plenty of reporters arrayed around him, Sun ate the £5 million banana, declaring it to be ‘much better than other bananas’.
After spending so much on it you’d hope so, and the banana buyer thinks that his consumption of the conceptual art will be part of the works history.