Banana
Maurizio Cattelan’s notorious 2019 banana
The Week in Artpodcast
The $6.2m banana, Frank Auerbach remembered, Lindokuhle Sobekwa’s photographs of addiction in South Africa—podcast
Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre
Hosted by Ben Luke. Produced by David Clack, Julia Michalska and Alexander Morrison
Art marketnews
Maurizio Cattelan’s famous duct-taped banana could bring more than $1m at auction
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Damien Hirstnews
Damien Hirst offers to swap any work for viral duct-tape banana—but Maurizio Cattelan says no
Curator Francesco Bonami has created his own version for the British artist as a consolation prize