The art world has tripped over Maurizio Cattelan's artwork, a banana taped to a wall, a provocation that, in the artist's words, 'invites us to reflect on the value of art and the dynamics of (this) m
A banana is taped to the shirt of a janitor at a protest against low wages paid by cleaning contractors SFM Services, Pritchard Industries, and CRS Facility Services on December 11, 2019, in Miami, Florida. The workers wore the bananas as part of a play on Maurizio Cattelan"s art piece at Art Basel, which sold for more than $120,000. Miami janitors are some of the lowest paid in the natio
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Artist Andy Warhol"s print rendition of a banana on the cover of a debut studio album by the art-rock band The Velvet Underground & Nico in March 1967, an experimental album featuring elements of noise and dissonance that would change music. On this 1996 CD reissue, the banana image is on the front cover, while the image of a peeled banana is on the inside of the jewel case, beneath the C
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Altered graffiti by British artist Banksy adorns concrete blocks on the Maidan Nezalezhnosti (Independence Square) in Kyiv, Ukraine, on July 21, 2022. German artist Bananensprier (Thomas Baumgärtel) added a banana in Ukrainian national colours--blue and yellow--next to Banksy"s work.
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A woman wearing a face mask carries a baby as she walks past graffiti of a banana-stuffing Trump, a satirical take by the Portuguese artist Kilos, in Baixa, Portugal, on April 24, 2021.
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A large banner seen on the facade of a building in Cologne, western Germany, shows an image by German artist Bananensprier (Thomas Baumgaertel) of Russian President Vladimir Putin in prison clothes, a banana hanging limply from his head, on July 3, 2023
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A work by US sculptor Tony Matelli titled "Lion (Bananas)" on display at the Tuileries Gardens in Paris on October 16, 2023, as part of the Paris+ fair by Art Basel.
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A woman looks out at the crowd around a sculpture consisting of a large heap of bananas by London-based artist Doug Fishbone as part of an art exhibition on October 05, 2004, in Trafalgar Square, London. The public was invited to take away the bananas for free later in the day.
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A sculpture titled "The yellow banana loaders" seen at the exhibition of the Guatemalan artist Margarita Azurdia at The Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid, Spain on November 23, 2022. The show presents the unique work of a symbolic figure with a restless, playful, transgressive spirit that permeates the Guatemalan artistic context of the second half of the 20th century.
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People stand next to a sculpture of a shark wrapped in a banana called "Sharnana" by artist Drew McDonald during the "Sculpture by the Sea" exhibition on a headland near Sydney"s Bondi Beach on October 17, 2024.
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Actors from Bilbao-based 2theatre are joined by tourists for a massive synchronised banana eating in front of City Chambers to promote their show "Losing It!" on the Royal Mile during the 70th Edinburgh Fringe Festival on August 21, 2017 in Edinburgh, Scotland.
