Artist Maurizio Cattelan vigorously denied copying another artist’s work in the making of his viral sculpture, Comedian, which comprises a banana duct-taped to a wall. In fact, his lawyers claim in a ...

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan failed to halt a lawsuit claiming that he copied another artist’s work in his viral sculpture of a banana duct-taped to a wall. A federal court in Miami on Wednesday ...

Nearly three years ago, Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan kickstarted one of the art world’s biggest viral moments when he sold a banana duct-taped to a wall for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami. But Joe ...

That art world has gone bananas—literally. The piece, titled Comedian, consists of exactly four parts: a locally sourced banana, silver duct tape, a surface to attach it to and a certificate of ...

The art world went bananas over this artwork five years ago—and now it could be headed to your own home. Visitors take pictures of the work “Comedian” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. And any ...

It’s clearer than ever that Maurizio Cattelan was trolling us when he announced that he had “retired”; it was just last week when the Italian artist and professional provocateur staged one of his ...

Photo by Cindy Ord/Getty Images. Evidently, not even a pandemic can take the mastery of Comedian off of Hirst’s mind. Still “desperate to buy” it seven months later, Hirst enlisted his friend, the ...

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 ...

That art world has gone bananas—literally. Whatever you think about Cy Twombly’s blackboard scribbles or Banksy’s shredded Girl with Balloon, a new piece at Art Basel Miami Beach has pushed the art ...