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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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
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 …
Life is full of eccentricities, and one of the most striking was that of the famous painting with a banana glued with an American quote that caused rage.
Justin Sun, a cryptocurrency entrepreneur who bought for $6.2 million a work of conceptual art consisting of a banana attached to a wall with adhesive tape, ate the fruit in Hong Kong. Chinese Justin Sun took off the adhesive tape and enjoyed the banana at a press conference held in The Peninsula Hong Kong, one of the most expensive hotels in the city, in the popular commercial district of Tsim Sha Tsui. "He knows much better than other bananas.…

Billionaire Eats Banana ‘Art’ He Just Paid $6.2 Million For
Billionaire Justin Sun, who paid $6.2 million for a banana duct taped to a wall, followed through on his promise by eating the fruit. Yes, really. The crypto entrepreneur bought the piece of ‘art’ – ‘Comedian’ by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, during an auction at Sotherby’s in New York where he outbid six other people. And if you think Sun consuming the banana was some kind of sardonic troll of the vacuity of the modern art world, think agai…
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