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Comedian is a 2019 artwork by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.Created in an edition of three, it appears as a fresh banana affixed to a wall with duct tape.As a work of conceptual art, it consists of a certificate of authenticity with detailed diagrams and instructions for its proper display.
Openclipart, also called Open Clip Art Library, is an online media repository of free-content vector clip art.The project hosts over 160,000 free graphics and has billed itself as "the largest community of artists making the best free original clipart for you to use for absolutely any reason".
An edition of “Comedian,” which was taped to Emmanuel Perrotin’s outer gallery wall at Art Basel, sold for $120,000 to an art collector. The banana was back in the headlines when a New York ...
In a recent paper, Jianping Mei and Michael Moses of JP Mei & MA Moses Art Market Consultancy found that the average return on art sold in the first of half 2024 was just 0.1%, the lowest yield ...
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Banana plantations are subject to damage by parasitic nematodes and insect pests, and to fungal and bacterial diseases, one of the most serious being Panama disease which is caused by a Fusarium fungus. This and black sigatoka threaten the production of Cavendish bananas, the main kind eaten in the Western world, which is a triploid Musa ...
Morris wrote that his object was to find the balance between color and variety on the one hand and structure. He declared in an 1881 essay, Some Hints on Pattern Designing of the need to "mask the construction of our pattern enough to prevent people from counting the repeats of our pattern, while we manage to lull their curiosity to trace it ...
The term nam wa has crossed over into the Khmer language where Thai banana is known in Cambodia as chek nam va (ចេកណាំវ៉ា), [11] but is known in the Khmer-speaking Thai province of Surin as chek sâ (ចេកស) or white banana. [12] This banana variety has multiple romanizations including 'Namwah Tall' (with a superfluous 'h').