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$120.000 Banana.

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  • Registered Users Posts: 16,421 ✭✭✭✭astrofool


    Sabre0001 wrote: »
    There's always money IN the banana stand

    FYP


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    As wines said above, it's a very nice form of tax evasion.

    It's a three-tier system.

    There are the "artists" who probably believe they're doing something magical.

    Next, the gathering of looney tunes who praise the artists to the roof. The kind of people who believe wearing a bin bag is haute culture, but can't possibly recreate such lightning-in-a-bottle as a banana cellotaped to a wall.

    At the top are the actual buyers, who more than likely laugh at the two levels below while writing off another tax bill.


  • Moderators, Science, Health & Environment Moderators, Society & Culture Moderators Posts: 60,027 Mod ✭✭✭✭Wibbs


    conorhal wrote: »
    Dadaism was a mistake.
    I think the mistake wasn't Dada, but the constant copying of it since. Like I say it's easy. Can have some shock value too. Handy for column inches and raising profiles.

    Rejoice in the awareness of feeling stupid, for that’s how you end up learning new things. If you’re not aware you’re stupid, you probably are.



  • Closed Accounts Posts: 5,995 ✭✭✭Ipso


    beejee wrote: »
    As wines said above, it's a very nice form of tax evasion.

    It's a three-tier system.

    There are the "artists" who probably believe they're doing something magical.

    Next, the gathering of looney tunes who praise the artists to the roof. The kind of people who believe wearing a bin bag is haute culture, but can't possibly recreate such lightning-in-a-bottle as a banana cellotaped to a wall.

    At the top are the actual buyers, who more than likely laugh at the two levels below while writing off another tax bill.

    If they spend 120k on some fruit, how much tax do they get to write off?


  • Registered Users Posts: 1,787 ✭✭✭beejee


    Ipso wrote: »
    If they spend 120k on some fruit, how much tax do they get to write off?

    40 cent


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  • Registered Users Posts: 8,112 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    something something smuggling garlic...


  • Registered Users Posts: 11,758 ✭✭✭✭BattleCorp


    It's just rich people showing off. They can show off their money by buying sh1te like this and have something to talk about under the pretense of it being art...........but it's really telling people 'I'm rich'.


  • Registered Users Posts: 3,462 ✭✭✭Bob Harris


    Sounds mad but 120k is probably pennies to some people

    About 12,000,000 pennies.


  • Registered Users Posts: 8,112 ✭✭✭Quantum Erasure


    https://nypost.com/2019/12/09/banana-wall-vandalized-with-jeffrey-epstein-theory-at-art-basel/

    The wall that featured the $120,000 duct-taped banana — before the fruit was gobbled up by a performance artist — was vandalized with the misspelled message, “Epstien didn’t kill himself.”

    “My name is ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’ Webber,” he told the crowd that gathered around him as he said he was “just doing a little art.”

    “It wasn’t vandalism, it’s art,” he repeatedly told security as he was being kicked out, video he posted on Facebook showed. He also said the gallery “invited” such performance art by setting a “precedent” with the banana display.


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