A banana, duct-taped to a wall went on a sale at Art Basel Miami Beach this week -- priced at $120,000. And,
Prior to the reported sale, the gallery's founder, Emmanuel Perrotin, told CNN the bananas are"a symbol of global trade, a double entendre, as well as a classic device for humor," adding that the artist turns mundane objects into"vehicles of both delight and critique."
moneylaundering
What the hell is wrong with people?
Wtf!?
Money laundering.
I’m kind of doubting this story- I’d like to see the actual contracts and checks. It feels like a huge play by the festival, a gallery, and somebrandom artist they got to go along. And, anyway, Yoko Ono did this with apple 5o years ago.
The rich move in such mysterious WAYS! BooOOooo!
Stupidity has no limits
How stupid can people be?
And yet the homeless and our veterans starve and freeze. This is disgusting.
Thought it had been peeled, eaten.
Liberals are super weird... and they complain about wasting money Weird!
Anyone want them?
Lol I have 5 of these bannanas for $10000 each
My 'Now Everyone Can Durian-Durian' masterpiece is ready for the world... durianart
Maybe it represents something else..I can't believe anyone would buy ripe banana duct taped to a board.
NotaLongTermInvestment
Sounds like your average Breaking News program.
CNN brilliant
If CNN was to distribute this money, it would be $1 for each of their viewers
Does the banana have drugs inside of it
More idiots.
Banana's are 49 cents a pound in my neighborhood. I can get a whole roll of duct tape, I am sure, for under $10. What lunatic would do this for 150K while children in the same community are going hungry? People need to do good, not be stupid.
🙄
lol
I have one for sale at a steal of a price. Starting bid $50K. DM me
Things like this are so insane there are starving people in the world and people pay crazy amounts of money for stupid s***
Idiots!!!!
Just got back from Stop n Shop and Home Depot.
I don't know about everyone else but I'm hungry...
I got 4 of those.
I’ll do it for half price. DM me 🍌🍌🍌🍌🍌
Stupidity of the elites.
Nope
Money laundering 101
Stupid....
And I’ll bet you the same amount of money that none of the buyers are conservatives.
Some people do not deserve to have money 🤨
Heard one is hanging in the lobby.
Money laundering...period
People are so damn dumb
Turns out CNN viewers were the only woolens interested in it.
That's dumb
Organic bananas on my supermarket 19 cents each. This one would not make it on their shelves because it looks not appealing! Ridiculous art in my opinion.
Not as good as a job at the Banana bending factory Though.
Thats no how art work, but money laundering.
Humans will buy the dumbest shit.
What's next? Someone taking a dump on a canvas and naming it 'relief'? Art is not something like this, and anyone paying that much money for a $.35 banana and $.002 duct tape is an idiot!
DrEldonnaLMay Wtf
I can believe it....those buying this still think our POTUS is doing a great job!
Can’t fix stupid
I’m taping up a green apple on a blank canvas any buyers out there ?
worth it
Ladies and gentlemen, the art of the future.
I fully expect my local Trader Joe’s to do a spoof of this. Banana art just 50 cents each! Such a bargain!
The whole world has gone nuts!
I don’t think these liberal artsy folks realize jisr how stupid they are. That they enjoy this unironically and pau such money is truly astounding to anyone with an IQ over 75
Our civilization is doomed
Let's see, Bernie Sanders bought one, Pocahontas bought the second and Hunter bought the third for Joe as a Christmas gift.
Im not sure if the rich are getting richer, but their definitely getting dumber.
Must be a gorilla in desperate need of a banana
Insanity
A guy ate the banana and the artist had a “Certificate of Authentication” to replace the banana with a guard protecting it. Lmao
People are idiots.
Humanity is doomed.
🙄🙄🙄🙄🤦🏾♂️🤦🏾♂️
There should be psychologists present at these events. Some people are undeniably nuts!
Na wa o
Simply ridiculous
Nuts.
That banana better be organic.
Attention all money launderers. I am selling my banana for he same price, and throwing in a dill pickle.🙃
Money laundering at its finest.
Is this a joke? I really don’t know if this stupidity make me mad or make me wondering what else are We going to see from this society.
Idiots
What happens when the banana go bad
My opinion is this is a money laundering scheme. CNN needs to look into the buyers, owner of the banana, and how they earn their cash. What better way to wash your cash?
Lord.
Let me guess, some dope bought it eh?
So stupid
As an artist who has worked on her craft for over 30 years, I find this insulting. As a human being, I find it appalling. If you have that much money to waste, can’t you fund something worthwhile? As a collector of art, I find this contemptible.
Money laundering...
This is the BS “art” I’ve been stuck in traffic all week heading home from work for? GTFO.
Squidward art.
If that isn’t the definition of insanity I don’t know what is
Nice money laundering you got going there.
Capitalism is dumb.
That’s it! I’m quitting my job! I’m a fucking artist too!
How long will the banana remain like that..
This is classified as fking art?! Wtf....I quit
I hav some bananas and some duct tape... I’d be willing to sell them for only $75,000 if anyone is interested.
I can tape you a banana to the wall with duct tape of any color for 50 bucks!
I wish somebody would buy banana from me for 100,000+ I wouldn't know what to do with myself.
Dude.
Dumb
I'm sure the money launderers are not too pleased that this story has gotten so much attention.
Some people have way too much money at their disposal. $150k, really? How about donate that to the local animal or homeless shelter?
This is what happens when you get a group of rich democratic’s in a room, one sticks a banana to a wall and calls it art, the others pay big money for it.
I have a fish taped with duct tape and is on sell who wants it ? is called the the art of the fish and duct tape
Time to reintroduce
Stupid people
This is sickening! I had a customer pay their insurance bill this week and tell me they have no money for 3 kids gifts for Christmas, and here are idiots wasting $ on this trash. Why can’t they use their money in a better way?
Very comforting
These are the people chanting and protesting in the streets, wanting Bernie Sanders and hating Capitolism and whatnot 🤦🏼♂️
I would also say to my best guesses he/she/middle/trans/both/etc watches your FakeNewsCNN . By the way Epsteindidntkillhimself EpsteinIsland PrinceAndrew nxivm allisonmack pedowood pedoelites pedovatican HarveyWeinstein billcosby GhislaineMaxwell JozefWesolowiski
ArtDecider
Money laundering
Can somebody give me a heads up on the next show. I’m an artist 💰
If you have extra cash....donate to St. Jude’s Children’s Hospital!
For real Omg i will put a Dorito on a piece of paper and tape it it will b worth millions and to add to the collection a piece of popcorn and a mint genius!!
Just shows having money doesn’t make you smart.
Miss the time banans would go on sale for being too ripe
Brainless people do exist.
Incredible but it was sold in Miami.
what the.....
That’s going to make one expensive loaf of banana bread.
Imagine walking into a grocery store and seeing Banana's sucked taped to the wall and selling at that price. So dumb!
I have a couple apples on my counter if anyone is interested. Red delicious going for 75K and Granny Smith for 50k. Duct tape is extra.
So what happens when the banana is rotted & super ripe
A fool and their money!
🙄😂🙄😂... seriously this is cnn news
人傻钱多的事不分国界。
Man at least put some effort into the art even if it’s just money laundering lmao
The kind of people who would spend that kind of money on a banana duct taped to a poster board, are the same kind of people who would testify to Congress that our president should be impeached.
Here come the forgeries...
And people think Bitcoin is crazy. DuctTapeBanana banana
And people bitch about the conditions at the detention centers at the borders ?! Clearly nobody knows how to spend their money wisely anymore
God this is bananas!
That's idiotic...
I got them for a low low price of $59.99.
Jeez What Am I looking at🙄
The buyer of both ...
Only in Florida🙄
Lame
It's really ridiculous. Maybe I should send my old grapes tape them to the wall too and see how much I can get. Maybe I can pay for my chemo.
Money Laundering... Mafia BananaArt
People are idiots!
hi so like, do those people know grocery stores exist?
The buyer was a CNN commentator Inside information that the 🍌 had dirt on our beloved President TRUMP
Decadence at work.
Wow. That’s more than what a company pays for a 30 spot on CNN nowadays
How stupid. Look at what money is doing to people. The country is degrading because of money. Values are dwindling because of money. Humanity and morality is faltering because of money. Evil is flourishing because of money. See the connection?
Ozark
I have a wax banana stuck to styrofoam with Gorilla tape. Selling for a fraction of the price of these bananas with ordinary duct tape. Do you know how strong Gorilla tape is? Gonna last forever. stablegenius art
how stupid
I've got a canvas with a grapefruit duct taped to it... how much can I get? LoL!
Someone was hungry
That's insane. Who the fuck bought that shit? If they have so much money that they don't know what to do with it, i can help them out. Hey rich people......I could use about $200,000 right now to pay off all my debts and buy a tiny house to live in. Ok?
This can’t be true.
Ridiculous
leftist art
Yang gatau seni gausah komen. Khusus buat lu jangan komen wafiagan
mosaaberizing this banana is how I feel about غسيل على السطح type of photography
There's a sucker born every minute and apparently an even bigger one, the minute after that.
SOMEBODY, PLEASE EXPLAIN TO ME HOW A SOCIETY WASTES THIS KIND OF MONEY ON SO-CALLED ART, BUT YET SO MANY ARE HUNGRY AND HOMELESS.
I'm tired of hearing about this stupid banana, it's just one of many examples how capitalism isn't about competition; it's about consolidation of power for a wealthy few
This is a joke on rich artisans
Last one got eaten. True story.
True idiots
Pathetic
I can do this, will it be worth the same?
If I’m gonna pay $150,000 for a banana, it better vibrate.
One got eaten lol
لا اسمع احد يقول عن الإبل والصقور كلمة واحدة بعد المسخرة هذي. موزة ملصوقة بالجدار بتيب ب ١٥٠ الف دولار؟؟؟؟ هذولا متخلفين.
$2000....that's all I need to better my life. Then I see this...🤦
People are idiots.
This is the stupidest shit I’ve heard in a long time. And that’s really saying something in the trump era.
No comment
iv got 2 bananas and some tape in my kitchen and could only dream of having that amount of money.......any takers? crazy moremoneythansense
I really want to see the apes 🦍 who pays so much for a banana 🍌
Dig deep enough you might find the artists name that sold it was Trump and the buyer was Putin.
I couldn’t believe this !!! He is not a freaking artist but a lunatic who fools anyone that’s crazy enough to believe him. Oh my what a bunch of looney toons!!!!
Nice to know how easy it is to get money from the stupid incredibly rich still. Better in the economy than sitting in their bloated bank accounts.
Does the fruit fly repellent cost extra?
Can I bring my bananas with duct tape?
Really? That money could have fed a lot of poor people
Was not one eaten?
People are sometimes idiots
Is this the new money laundering scheme of the GOP.
The filthy rich just has money to spend
This is what the world got too, over stopping global warming😒🙄
Now I know for sure.. Humanity has gone insane
Calling all Democrats ... great investment opportunity for all those who vote for Bernie Sanders ... soon food lines will be everywhere & here you have ‘art’ then food. Better buy it now before Breadline Bernie gets into office ... and food disappears. 🤦♂️🤪🍌
and we wonder why ppl in FL have problems voting.
This sale mirrors Hans Christian Andersen's story 'The Emperor's New Clothes.
Pathetic
Money laundering
This is how you know this world ain’t shit❗️
We need billionaires to put money back into the economy.. Also billionaires: let me buy some ripe banana's 150,000 a piece 😑🤫 MoneyLaundering
Think of all the fakes hitting the markets .....how the experts will tell them apart.Ohh , the humanity!!!
This is proof of the decline of civilization.
Money laundering
it called money laundering for the rich .......
Everyday we stray further from reality
'And then you get artist Who says he doesn't wanna paint at all. Just takes an empty canvass Sticks it on a wall.'
Omg art!
Dude that’s bananas
Two words: money laundering
They should have asked me. Could have done it for half price😂
Now way somebody's not getting money laundered through this somehow.
Who are these people? Id cut my finger off and duct tape it back on for that!! Muppets!! More money than sense!!
And you call yourself a news outlet. Your a disgrace, all is is a clickbait outlet
That is the most beautiful banana I have ever seen. Banana in Bondage. How exquisitely remarkable.
One of the buyers was asked if he admired the artist's post modern symbolism. He said no, but he was filthy rich and a little low in potassium.
Buy a homeless person a house.
This is the confirmation that The US has become a Banana Republic now. 🍌
Think of the starving people that money could feed. Or the elderly that need help paying bills or getting food. Or the school lunches that it would cover for hungry kids. Or the shelter animals that money would feed.
Just hit the grocery store. Bananas By Phil will be available by tomorrow. DM me for advance orders. Low, Low prices. Many under $1,000.
Just tell you, this psych game will break your heart anytime.. I gave you a fair direct hint, but you play as I must follow you.
Money laundering at it's best!
money laundering
The only bananas worth $120K
We live in incredibly stupid times. Bet you guys wet your pants on how brave it was didn’t you?
This 'art' is reminiscent of the current impeachment-theatre, in which bull$hit artists are trying to convince the gullible that there's something of interest to look at.
Ever heard of money laundering?
Proof number 2 that people are stupid. Proof number one that people are stupid
I remember when someone forgot their glasses on the floor of a modern art museum and art critics started analyzing the piece 🤦🏻♀️
What's hidden inside the banana, Adren*ch**me?
Very Ridiculous and Funny to hear.
SamiT05
SamiT05
$$$$$ Laundering?
Talk about STUPID.
Is this the same banana you guys used for the facts first commercial
Can we get a profile on anyone that bought this worthless nonsense? I mean, how stupid can you be?
OdlanierO
Doesn’t even look appeeling
WTF?
Art is just a way to exchange money.
Is this some kind of joke? I’m perplexed.
Is it called “This is why billionaires shouldn’t exist”?
People are weird.
This is why the filthy rich need to pay higher taxes...smh
I’ll sell some for twice cost
It’s beautiful.
Wow, what a bunch of idiots. If they would’ve asked me I’d have done it for 20 bucks plus the price of the duct tape. I have bananas on my countertop.
Money laundering?
Dafaq, you realize that in a few days the banana will turn brown right lol
Wheres bansky when u need him. Rich people have nothing better to do with their money.
I've made a piece with a banana duct taped to ANOTHER banana. Easily worth twice as much. PM for details or if you would like something similar or more extravagant made. Serious buys only. Work of 3 & 4 coming, some are naturally attached as well & even have tape on the side
So here i am struggling trying to save money to see my family after 3 years for Christmas and not sure I'm going to make it, and this guy literally glues a banana on a wall and gets 150k ,how about that equality in this world...
Arrogance !
If this doesn't tell you something about how stupid people are with money...then I don't know what does
I’ve got several of those.
That's it..I am quitting my job and becoming an artist. I am selling an apple taped to a television.
What's the ethnicity of those alleged buyers. I'm certain they aren't black.
This is news? CNN home of fake news and propaganda.
But why? 😳
150k for something thats gonna rot in a week.. rich people will never cease to amaze me
Stupid. They once sold 'art' that was a rope with a nail through it. These are just bored millionaires and greedy poor folk lookin for payday.
friendofrocks _gunstreet al_slice why didn’t we do this
In African we will say that this banana has a kind of witchcraft powers. This is simply sorcery.
Two of the three paintings have been successfully used to transfer illegal money to another country.
Money laundering has gone bananas.
These are the people who need to have their money robbed by the government AOC, not people like Bill Gates, who is getting rid of diseases in entire continents.
No one.... Stupid people ⬇️
That is not art. It’s a banana with duct tape.
No one thought of taping their own banana to their wall for like 20 cents?
SMH
I'll have 'people with way too much money who buy idiotic shit' for $500 please Alex
People have lost their compass reasoning gone off balance. What more proof needed now seeing people have gone bananas over nothing because someone said duck taping one to a wall is greatest money making investment yet. They did, and money was spent, got any ideas? Write me
❌OH MY GAWD I sincerely have to ask myself how in the hell I’ve gotten myself into the twilight zone the last few years! This is a for real OMG! I can’t even explain...I-just-can’t! there’s only “OMG” ...A FREAKIN BANANA & DUCT TAPE $120+K 🏃🏻♀️Runs for 🥒and duct tape💡
I have one of those on my kitchen counter. 🎨🍌🎨
ArtBasel what if we frame this photos of hshipungo a young lady from Namibia with a special birthmark on her right eye? We don't need to sell her pictures for $150,000 but I just believe she has something special on her that portrait Artistic work of God
I just figured out how to get rich. Game over for the rest of y’all lol
I duct taped my bumper to my car. Pricing comparison should have it worth about $7,875,007. I accept bitcoin.
I see why people dislike modern art. It's as confusing and unhinged as a 'microwaved' meme. Then again, there is art that are just white canvases that sell for millions. Or a canvas with just a squiggly line. Art is weird yet passionate.
Would be nice if someone paid that much for one of my photographs.
People are really this pathetic?
We can stop making art now. Old classic maybe, but the new art?
Well he aptly named the art piece “comedian” & sure enough he’s 😂 🤣 all the way to the 🏦💰
Money and stupidity. 😦
Wait ... a banana duct taped to a wall is selling as ART ? WTH ?
Golden banana …
I'm an artist with a BFA who has taken 5 bananas, smashed them up, & combined them with yummy ingredients to make muffins. You can look at them or even eat them! A whole dozen for $120k or $10k each if you're not hungry. I really need money. What is wrong with the art market?!
If buyers were monkeys this news would make some sense.
Someone explain this shitmare to me? What exactly is happening to this world in 2019 when humans are suffering and hungry and homeless and some billionaire can throw 120,000 at a banana with ductape? This disturbs me on so many levels.
Superglued my junk to a cardboard box. Any takers?
Disgusting!!
I've officially given up on humanity...
Huh?
The human experiment has reached a tipping point.
$10 a Democrat made it and bought them.
I have some duct tape pineapple for sale !!
Money laundering at play🤔
Now I have taped a corn flake too
Why not
Whaaaat?
I hope the money is going to charity
This is pathetic and gross.
😢Africa look, people playing with good.while we go hungry🤔
Ok, I have taped the banana to the canvas, now am I rich?
Hahaha some people just has too much money...give me some
I'm going to do this with an apple.
If you like this you'll love my Waffle Nailed To A Door creation. A mere $100,000 as well.
Guillotine the buyer.
Yet I painstakingly handmade all these earrings with recycled materials and can’t sell one pair.
🤔
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