|
Author
|
Topic: Art: Banana Duct Taped To Wall Sells For $120,000
|
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 13768
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted December 11, 2019 11:45 PM
  
 Banana duct-taped to a wall sells for $120K at Art Basel Miami
Mara Siegler and Natalie O'Neill
12-5-2019
http://nypost.com/2019/12/05/this-120k-banana-is-just-one-of-the-ludicrous-things-for-sale-at-art-basel/
IP: Logged |
jwhop
Knowflake Posts: 13768
From: Madeira Beach, FL USA
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted December 11, 2019 11:53 PM
Not to be outdone, Tampa, FL police duct taped a donut to their wall and offer it for sale for $200,000.
 http://www.newsweek.com/florida-police-mock-banana-artwork-1476458 IP: Logged |
BlueRoamer
Knowflake Posts: 743
From:
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted December 12, 2019 05:05 PM
I think someone ate the banana at one point and they had to replace it.IP: Logged |
vansio
Knowflake Posts: 612
From:
Registered: Dec 2017
|
posted December 12, 2019 05:37 PM
The fine-art economy is a tax-break haven. It sold for a reason.If you’d like to know more, I recommend this documentary:
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Price_of_Everything IP: Logged |
BlueRoamer
Knowflake Posts: 743
From:
Registered: Apr 2009
|
posted December 12, 2019 09:25 PM
Ya ive heard this that rich people buy art and store it at airport to avoid taxes...so pathetic, its always rich people who dont pay taxesIP: Logged |
shura
Knowflake Posts: 2052
From: kamaloka
Registered: Jun 2009
|
posted December 13, 2019 02:13 PM
quote:
Originally posted by BlueRoamer:
Ya ive heard this that rich people buy art and store it at airport to avoid taxes...so pathetic, its always rich people who dont pay taxes
Yes. It's a fine agreement between the deranged lefty "artist" producing this cultural destroying "art" and the soulless greedy rich man validating it with his bank account.
IP: Logged |
vansio
Knowflake Posts: 612
From:
Registered: Dec 2017
|
posted December 13, 2019 03:19 PM
*ahem*correction* ^^ it’s an agreement between dodgy gallery-owners, *their curators*, and wealthy entities with purchasing power. We all buy goods and have tastes... rich people happen to spend theirs on [bad] art. A 125k priced art, I work in the industry and can promise you the art-duo only got a nickel. Artists themselves are working-class people, and some, more like court jesters. Consider it a party trick for Basel entertainment, like how people auction off eligible bachelors at charity balls even though the money is already going to be moved. Especially considering this is a ‘perishable good’ in the strictest sense of the term. Whoever bought it is having a laugh—yes that person is probably a d*ck. So’s the guy hunting down trophy animals for the same price because he can. It’s all relative.I worked with a “trash (anti-)art” private collection from the seventies that included works by Yoko Ono and the like and that sh*t 40 years later is still priced at $1k. My iPhone at market value costs more than that and would sell faster lol This, my friends, is capitalism at its finest. Culture isn’t being destroyed—this is it. Don’t take the news so literally. To clarify, the tax break typically only happens if work or even a large sum of money itself is donated or loaned to the Public like in an institution or museum. Why do you care how other people spend their money if you’re so righteously-winged? Kinda counterintuitive no? IP: Logged |
Lindaland
UBBFriend: Email This Page to Someone! 
