Art: Help an Uncultured Redneck Make Sense of This

[OK Corgi Rancher]

A banana duct-taped to a wall sells for $6.2M...then the buyer eats it. What the actual f*** are people thinking?

Crypto entrepreneur pays $6.2M for viral banana artwork – then eats it

The winning bidder of Maurizio Cattelan’s famed banana duct-taped to a wall installation immediately pulled it off the wall and ate it. This isn't the first time this has happened.

www.foxbusiness.com

 

[THE JOKER]

Money laundering,Bribery, favors.

 

[adamsredlines]

Modern art is money laundering for sure.

 

[OK Corgi Rancher]

Even a money laundering scheme at least makes the price seem reasonable. Just buying a banana taped to a wall for $6.2M because it's "art" is insane.

 

[Big House]

You may want to forward this question to Hunter Biden.

 

[Aries]

I suspect you are asking the wrong crowd to make sense of this.

 

[adamsredlines]

Kind of interesting on the same subject...

 

[okcBob]

There’s a sucker born every minute

 

[rickm]

Sounds like a scam that the artist and buyer put together to get their names on front pages.

 

[Fro]

Money laundering,Bribery, favors.

This. Art has always been good for laundering money.