Update: Man eats banana! On Friday, crypto investor Justin Sun took two bites from his $6.2 million banana at a press conference in Hong Kong on Friday. “Eating it at a press conference can also become a part of the artwork's history,” he said, likening the conceptual work to NFTs and blockchain-based art. “Most of its objects and ideas exist as intellectual property and on the internet, as opposed to something physical.”
The banana had been purchased for $0.35 from Shah Alam, a 74-year-old Bangladeshi immigrant who works at a stall outside Sotheby's, New York. Sun pledged via X to buy 100,000 bananas from the stall, believing Alam to be the owner, which he is not — he is a shift worker and makes $12 an hour. Here's more from The Art Newspaper [story may be paywalled].
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