Crypto boss eats banana art he bought for $6.2 million
- A cryptocurrency entrepreneur named Justin Sun ate a banana art piece he purchased for $6.2 million.
- Sun expressed that the experience felt like 'disbelief' in the first 10 seconds after he won the bid.
- He described the artwork as 'a cultural phenomenon that bridges the worlds of art, memes, and the cryptocurrency community.
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The buyer of a banana with duct tape that cost $6.2 million, eats it.
Justin Sun Eats $6.2M Banana artwork
Justin Sun, the entrepreneur behind the $6.2 million purchase of Comedian—a conceptual art piece featuring a banana taped to a wall—made headlines on Friday, November 29, by eating the banana in front of reporters in Hong Kong. “This tastes much better than regular bananas,” Sun remarked while biting into the fruit he had acquired just a week earlier as an art piece. “It’s really delicious… Source
A Businessman eats a Banana he purchased for 6.2 Million Dollars
A Chinese entrepreneur ate a banana he purchased for 6.2 million dollars at an auction in New York. A few days ago, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for over 6 million dollars, with the buyer being Justin Sun. Along with the banana and the tape, he also received a certificate of authenticity and […] The post A Businessman eats a Banana he purchased for 6.2 Million Dollars appeared first on Sarajevo Times.
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The US$6.2 million duct-taped banana ...
On the evening of November 20, Sotheby’s auction house sold an artwork by Maurizio Cattelan for an astonishing sum. The piece, titled Comedian, is not a conventional painting or sculpture. It consists of an ordinary banana, duct-taped to a wall at a jaunty angle. The hammer price? A staggering US$6.2 million (£4.9 million). The widespread incredulity surrounding this exorbitant price has been tinged with humour. The sale has been perceived by ma…
Man Who Bought Duct-Taped Banana Artwork for $6.2M Eats It: ‘I Wanted to Become a Part of History’
Crypto entrepreneur Justin Sun shared a video on social media of himself peeling the banana and eating itJustin Chin/Bloomberg via Getty Justin Sun eating "Comedian," a controversial art piece.Art is subjective and — apparently — sometimes edible.Justin Sun, the crypto entrepreneur who purchased the now-viral art piece featuring a banana taped to a wall, has eaten it. The piece, titled "Comedian," was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan …
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