The taped banana - now perhaps one of the most expensive fruits ever sold - was actually bought earlier in the day for a mere $0.35, according to the New York Times.
I don’t get the apeel.
I might be splitting hairs, but it’s appeal.
It’s a pun. A peel, like the skin on a banana.
As was mine, albeit a poor one.
Splitting as in banana split.
Well it seems the puns come in bunches.
You’re all bananas
Is the banana for scale?
Money laundering
Yo I was about to comment this.
Like literally.
How do you transfer a huge amount of money.
Just get the receipient to create “art”
Instruct receipient to sell “art” for the amount of money
Voila, legal money laundering!
Yeah, it’s the first thing I thought. Everybody else sees it too, right? This is well past dadaism.
…but wasn’t this the case all along in the art market, except for institutional buyers?
