It's being dubbed "peel-and-eat-art" because it's an actual banana duct-taped to a wall, and it just sold for a whopping $5.2 million. With the $1 million Sotheby's Auction house fees on top of that,

Forget your 99-cent grocery store banana—this one could cost you $1.5 million. No, it’s not genetically engineered or dipped in gold; it’s a regular banana

Walk into any supermarket and you can generally buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall? That might sell for more than $1 million at an upcoming auction at Sotheby’s in New York.

The Italian artist who created the banana duct-taped to a wall that sold this week for $6.2 million, said in an interview published on Friday that the work was a "provocation" and an invitation to appreciate the true value of art.

This year has seen some of the worst sales in decades for the art market, and the “Comedian” piece is unlikely to move the needle one way or the other.

NEW YORK (AP) — An eerie nighttime streetscape below a pale blue daytime sky by the Belgian surrealist René Magritte sold for $121.2 million, a record for the artist, at an auction in New York.

The controversial work, which instantly went viral when it debuted at Art Basel in 2019, beat estimates several times over.

Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun bought Maurizio Cattelan's famous banana-taped-to-a-wall artwork, Comedian, for $6.24 million at a Sotheby’s auction. Sun, who links conceptual art to crypto culture, plans to either exhibit it,

A cryptocurrency entrepreneur who identified himself as the buyer of a viral artwork depicting a yellow banana duct-taped to a wall said he will eat the fruit as part of a “unique artistic experience.