Guggenheim Now Owns Maurizio Cattelan's Taped Banana Artwork

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York City has accepted the gift of Comedian, the polarizing banana artwork by Maurizio Cattelan that was duct-taped to the wall at Perrotin Gallery's booth at the Art Basel Miami Beach fair last December.The work at the fair was Cattelan's first new piece in more than 15 years. The artist billed the work as a sculpture and it sold three times the amount of its asking price, ranging from $120,000 to $150,000 USD. The banana was eventually removed from the b...