these are words I never thought I’d say $5 million for a banana a piece of conceptual art consisting simply of a banana duct taped to a wall sold for $6.2 million at an auction in New York the winning bid came from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur we are looking at an ordinary banana and an ordinary piece of duct tape however what makes the ordinary extraordinary is the intention of the artist who put this together Macio calin’s comedian became a phenomenon when it debuted in 2019 as people tried to figure out whether the fruit tape to a wall was a joke or commentary on questionable standards among art collectors this version of the comedian won’t last long though because the crypto entrepreneur plans to eat the banana in the coming days