{"id":1922584,"date":"2023-05-02T05:10:54","date_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-says-he-ate-120k-art-installation-of-banana-taped-to-wall-because-he-was-hungry\/"},"modified":"2023-05-02T05:14:02","modified_gmt":"2023-05-02T09:14:02","slug":"student-says-he-ate-120k-art-installation-of-banana-taped-to-wall-because-he-was-hungry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-says-he-ate-120k-art-installation-of-banana-taped-to-wall-because-he-was-hungry\/","title":{"rendered":"Student Says He Ate $120K Art Installation Of Banana Taped To Wall Because \u2018He Was Hungry\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">32<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fstudent-says-he-ate-120k-art-installation-of-banana-taped-to-wall-because-he-was-hungry%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1922584&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Art Student Eats Pricey Installation Because He Was &#8220;Hungry&#8221;<\/h2>\n<p>An <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kamala-harris-stepdaughter-teases-first-magazine-shoot-after-being-signed-post-inauguration\/\" title=\"Kamala Harris Stepdaughter Teases First Magazine Shoot After Being Signed Post-Inauguration\">art student<\/a> from Seoul National University caused a stir when he ate a pricey <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/london-mayor-sadiq-khan-mocked-online-after-spending-taxpayer-money-on-modern-art-displays\/\" title=\"London Mayor Sadiq Khan Mocked Online After Spending Taxpayer Money On Modern Art Displays\">art installation<\/a> because he was \u201chungry.\u201d<\/p>\n<h3>The Art Piece<\/h3>\n<p>The art piece in question featured a banana attached to a wall with duct tape. \u201cComedian,\u201d a work by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/fact-check-did-jk-rowling-publish-these-tweets-about-being-adored-in-the-harry-potter-universe\/\" title=\"FACT CHECK: Did JK Rowling Publish These Tweets About Being Adored In The Harry Potter Universe?\">previously made headlines<\/a> in 2019 when it sold for $120,000 at Art Basel Miami Beach. It\u2019s currently displayed at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, South Korea.<\/p>\n<h3>The Incident<\/h3>\n<p>The unnamed student grabbed the banana off the wall, ate the fruit, then placed the empty banana peel under the duct tape. \u201cThe <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/yale-law-students-said-a-top-journal-was-racist-admissions-data-suggest-otherwise\/\" title=\"Yale Law Students Said a Top Journal Was Racist. Admissions Data Suggest Otherwise.\">student told<\/a> the museum he ate it because he was hungry,\u201d a museum spokesperson told CNN of the incident. \u201cIt happened suddenly, so no special action was taken. The artist was informed of the incident but he didn\u2019t have any reaction to it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The museum replaced the eaten banana with a new one.<\/p>\n<h3>Previous Reactions<\/h3>\n<p>CNN noted that \u201cComedian\u201d is part of Cattelan\u2019s solo exhibition on display at Leeum Museum until July 16. The banana is usually replaced every two to three days and is not for sale. The banana-centric piece has inspired this type of reaction before. After the first edition of the art installation was sold, a performance artist named David Datuna ate the duct-taped fruit while it was on display at the Perrotin gallery at Art Basel in Miami, the outlet said.<\/p>\n<p>Datuna posted about eating the banana on his Instagram. \u201c\u2018Hungry Artist\u2019 Art performance by me. I love Maurizio Cattelan artwork and I really love this installation. It\u2019s very delicious,\u201d he wrote alongside a video clip of the stunt.<\/p>\n<h3>About the Artist<\/h3>\n<p>Cattelan, who\u2019s been described as \u201ca prankster and a troublemaker,\u201d makes art that is often satirical and puts a mirror up to modern culture. The artist is also known for a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/student-says-he-ate-120k-art-installation-of-banana-taped-to-wall-because-he-was-hungry\/\" title=\"Student Says He Ate 0K Art Installation Of Banana Taped To Wall Because \u2018He Was Hungry\u2019\">solid 18-carat-gold toilet meant<\/a> to mock wealth and excess called \u201cAmerica.\u201d It was valued at around $6 million. The pricey, fully functional commode was installed at New York\u2019s Guggenheim Museum in 2016 and could be used by visitors. Someone stole the piece from Bleinheim Palace in England, the birthplace of Winston Churchill. It has never been recovered.<\/p>\n<p><b><a href=\"https:\/\/onelink.to\/dwapp\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">CLICK HERE TO GET THE DAILY WIRE APP<\/a><\/b><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Seoul National University&#8217;s art scene was rocked when a daring art student decided to satisfy his hunger by devouring a pricey art installation. The piece in question was none other than &#8220;Comedian&#8221; by renowned Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan, which featured a banana duct-taped to a wall. This work had already made waves in 2019 when it sold for a whopping $120,000, but now it&#8217;s making headlines once again for a completely unexpected reason. Who knew that art could be so delicious?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":345,"featured_media":1922585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[7878,25565,7331,18088,23177,18259,25566,5135,25317,4354],"class_list":["post-1922584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-he","tag-120k","tag-art","tag-ate","tag-banana","tag-hungry","tag-installation","tag-student","tag-taped","tag-wall"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922584","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/345"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1922584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1922584\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1922585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1922584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1922584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1922584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}