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Artist who created the Duct-taped Banana artwork has sculpted a toilet from 223 pounds of gold
(www.wsj.com)
Sothebyβs announced plans to auction the 18-karat sculpture, titled America, with opening bids set at around $10 million.
https://archive.is/Kb4HY (wsj)
The duct-taped banana artwork was a popular culture story in 2019.
Look I know it's an old hat of reactionaries to hate on modern art, but how can you look at banana wall and not be like "damn this be the direct end result of the cia fucking around in art and the entire art world being a front for money laundering (maybe)"? This is so low effort and plain dumb, ohh a gold toilet how edgy π
And it's called America
Boy, they sure got our number with that one!
Like there's so many bad things to lambaste the usa over but this feels like it's DRUMPF coded and very liberal, like I can picture the artists being like "yeah america was good until orange hitler came along!"
Would have been slightly more poignant if the damn thing sprayed blood every 30 seconds or so
Pretty much.
Because people are still talking about it 6 years later and it always leads to discussions over what should or shouldn't be considered "art," which was the point of duct taping a banana to a wall.
The average normie doesn't interact with the avant garde. You're lucky if you can get people to name 3 living artists. Even luckier if those names aren't Banksy, commercial artists, or something like fantasy/sci-fi/video game/album cover artists (not a criticism of those types. Just pointing out the artists doing shows at museum galas are inaccessible for most people).
Getting them to think about what art means and to look around for actual talent was worth doing, even if it's a low-effort shitpost.
shitposts used to be better
Yeah, this isn't even edgy art. It's boring edgy art. It's like someone reposting greentext from 2014 or something.