Doofus Of The Day #1,122

 

Today's award goes to a dubiously artistic "cryptocurrency entrepreneur".  The BBC reports:

Maurizio Cattelan's provocative artwork of a banana duct-taped to a wall has fetched $6.2m (£4.9m) at Sotheby's in New York - four times higher than pre-sale estimates.

The auction house says Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun outbid six other rivals to get the "Comedian" installation of the Italian visual artist on Wednesday.

"In the coming days, I will personally eat the banana as part of this unique artistic experience," Mr Sun was quoted as saying.

The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.

There's more at the link.

If eating a banana is a "unique artistic experience", then I daresay my next steak dinner is going to be a carnivorous Aztec ritual dismemberment!  And as for paying over $6 million for it . . . words fail me.

How anyone can claim that a banana taped to a wall is "art", is utterly beyond me.  It's like saying the scribbles on the wall by a three-year-old with a box of crayons is art, instead of meaningless disfigurement.  What about a cabbage instead?  Or a rutabaga?  Or (shudder) arugula?

Oy gevalt . . .

Peter