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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 !

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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.

A con artist is a kind of artist, right?

arguably, the only art that matters in 2024

They are artists all the way down.

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

An artist has to tape them to a wall first.

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

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

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

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