THE ART COMMUNITY: ON CRACK?

The $2,500 banana.

Key Quote: The buyer should not be expecting a superlative piece of fruit in return for $2,500. The bananas Fernandes is using for the display are ordinary, purchased from local supermarkets. Indeed, most days the artist eats the banana he has replaced. Instead, the buyer will be paying for the concept and will receive photos documenting the project.

(Thanks to Norah Wilson)

Comments

[Jeff Meyerson]

“The banana is temporal. We are also temporal, but we live as if we are not.”

Wow, deep, dude.

Pass the skin.

[slyeyes]

Is that a $2,500 banana in your pocket or are you just really glad to see me?

[Chris]

And now - How to defend yourself against a man armed with a banana! Sell the banana for $2,500.

[Chris]

Then, eat the banana. Thus, rendering the banana assailant harmless.

[Wes S.]

Two questions:

1) Was this "art" funded with a government grant?

And 2)...the "Patrick Swayze Collective" of underground art terrorists?

[PirateBoy]

Then how much did Jim Henson and the Swedish Chef (Bork! Bork! Bork!) pay for this banana?

[PirateBoy]

Or perhaps the banana was just dull?

[insomniac]

"my concept is to bankrupt myself buying frivolous works of art, making a name for myself as a major art patron with absolutely no common sense. do you want it?"

"sure, what's the price?"

"$3,000"

"i don't have that kind of money!"

"well, give me the banana and we'll call it even."

[Guin]

Get-rich-quick-scheme:

Offer rights to a "concept" which involves a raisin mounted on a toothpick. Each "conceptual raisin" can be purchased for a mere $500.

At 600 raisins per box, that would net $180,000 from a $2.99 investment.

[KOW]

...said Fernandes, who is staging the exhibition without public funding.
Small favours. The only way this would be more ridiculous is if they spent my tax dollars from this
*slnks away ashamed because she has both a Canadian and a Trinidadian heritage*

[Mr Death]

Yes! We have no banana;
We have no banana today!

[Koko D. Gorilla]

Art is what ever people declare it to be. Duchamp and later people like Allen Kaprow or Sophie Calle established this decades ago and art history has validated it. Where artists stop making art and start selling philosophy is where you will find people with little understanding of either.

That said, it really was a damned great looking banana!!!

[MartiniShark]

Makes me wonder what they are charging for a latte at the museum's Starbucks kiosk.

[shell]

Is it wrong that, being from Kansas, where every banana is trucked in, really doesn't get this "Art"?
We buy fairly green...never ripe. Although we do like banana bread every so often. I prefer the freezer for that and not buying black ones off the shelf. I'm pretty sure I'd never pick a banana off a public place...I'm doubly sure I'd never pay that much for said "art"! Monkey feces...maybe...but not a banana. Ahhhh...home on the plains...where deer play and we don't have to deal with the monkeys!