Maurizio Cattelan

(Newser) - For sale: the world's most valuable toilet. Sotheby's announced on Friday that it will auction off the solid gold commode, a sculpture by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan titled "America." The auction house calls it an "incisive commentary on the collision of artistic production and commodity...

(Newser) - Well, when you duct-tape a perishable fruit to a wall, call it art, and sell it for $6.2 million, there is just bound to be a hungry museum-goer around. When last we checked in on the previous iteration of the banana known as The Comedian by Italian artist and...

(Newser) - He paid $6.2 million for a banana taped to a wall —and then he ate it. Justin Sun followed through on his promise to eat the banana at the center of Maurizio Cattelan's infamous "Comedian" artwork on Friday after logging the highest bid for the work...

(Newser) - If you thought that selling banana duct-taped to a wall as "art" for $120,000 was—let's just go for the low-hanging fruit here—bananas, well, Sotheby's would like you to know the price has gone up. The Art Newspaper tackles next month's scheduled auction:

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