Not just any banana!

Yes, I read that. It is taking conceptual art, which, despite everything I have read and looked at, strikes me as being a total con, to ridiculous lengths. On the other hand the temptation to make so much easy money from gullible people must be irrestistible.

A fool and their money are soon parted.

I do wish I'd thought of it - but the idea is so stupid I'd feel ashamed to label it as art.
The gallery owner obviously took it seriously because she was upset and found another banana to replace it. The duct tape was obviously what cost £90,000! along with the idea, possibly thought up by a four year old.

I'm wondering just how much DGD's pasta collage would be worth?
Or her fallen leaves collage which presents as an autumn wood?

I’ve got a dried up orange hanging around that I used the zest from in some mince pies - I’m going to stick it in our window with some gaffer tape. I’m expecting lots of press coverage tomorrow...

I have a letter in my files from Tom Keating, artist and art-faker who so despised this kind of thing that he fooled the arty-farty world for years.
He made magnificent fakes of old masters but cleverly wrote on the back of each one, in ink that showed up in black light, 'This is a fake'. So when he was charged with fraus, he could prove it wasn't.

His letter to me says he once watched a well-heeled couple pay multi-thousands of pounds for "an equisitely framed and mounted piece of soiled toilet paper "

This 'artwork' was signed, 'Willem Krappen.'

Says it all really, doesn't it?

I once saw, in an art exhibition, a model of a bridge. It was completely made of books. I was about to dismiss it as rubbish when I noticed that the books were all part of a series of text books on how to construct bridges.

I still didn't think it was art - maybe design - but at least it showed there was some thought and wit behind it.

I can't find anything witty or meaningful about a banana stuck to a wall with tape!
Apparently whoever bought it has been told that the banana will need replacing from time to time

Is it April 1st?

Ha! Callistemon, very true!

Unless, of course, the decay process is part of the installation....

He was the Italian artist who made the gold loo that was valued at £1million and stolen from Blenheim Palace.

Pity they didn't ask Meghan Markle to write a message on it.

That might have bumped the price up a bit......or not!

Well the banana has been eaten. The artist will replace it.
Presumably when he has got one at the perfect stage of ripeness.

I had a little chat with my breakfast banana - told it that it could be worth £90,000+ to a lucky purchaser.
Then I chopped it up and ate it.

The follow up is even more baffling !

The gallery, after the man ate it, replaced it with another banana and said:

"He did not destroy the art work. The banana is the idea," Lucien Terras, director of museum relations for Galerie Perrotin.

More fool whoever bought it!

Some people have more money than sense. Just think how many food bags (with or without bananas) could be bought with that to feed the hungry.

A banana duct-taped to a wall may not be everyone's idea of art, craft or inspiration.

But there is something absurd — and maybe delightfully so — about a banana on a wall, now turning brown, making people stop, stare, smell and wonder about the fragile passage of time.