After four years of art school, Mr. Cattelan must have cycled through countless theories of what a banana is “supposed ... he removes a roll of duct tape. He raises the roll to his mouth ...

It’s the idea behind a work of art that makes it “art, ” so say experts in describing why some outrageous stuff gets applause ...

Comedian is the most famous artwork by Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian artist who had a retrospective at the Guggenheim in 2011, and whose auction record, set in 2016, stands at $17.2 million. In most ...

Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian"—a sculpture of a real banana attached to a wall with grey duct tape, in an edition of ... on sale with Perrotin Gallery at Art Basel Miami Beach in 2019 ...