[ValentinA23]

This is a reflexion I made to a friend yesterday: the banana doesn't improve the state of art over Duchamp's Fountain. The real artist, in this case, is the guy who paid 6 millions to eat the banana !

[burkaman]

The guy that bought it is not an artist, he was just trying to distract from some good-old-fashioned corruption: https://popular.info/p/a-chinese-national-charged-with-fraud

Based on the coverage of his purchase it seems like he succeeded.

[kazinator]

A con artist is a kind of artist, right?

[red-iron-pine]

arguably, the only art that matters in 2024

[blitzar]

They are artists all the way down.

[deadbabe]

Now someone must eat the artist who ate the banana, for several million dollars.

[blitzar]

An artist has to tape them to a wall first.

[dghlsakjg]

I'll do it. But not for less than $12mm

[blitzar]

I am an artist. I would do it for the sake of art (and $10mil)

[disqard]

...but who will be left holding the (body)bag?