Banana once again

What sold was for millions as art so grand, Was bought for a few cents at a fruit stand-- A fancy mall nor mart, Nor place of art apart, Nor was banana taped with swanky band. But a joke so cruel In art’s name was this all, Or call it a crime of a dollar land. ______________________ Happenings |02.12.2024| art, irony, humour Poet’s note: The banana that was sold for millions as an art piece was purchased at a fruit stand outside Sotheby’s auction house for 35 cents apiece, or 4 for one dollar (purchased for $ 5.2 million by a crypto currency entrepreneur-- who else?). How absurd can things go in this so-called world of art gone crazy for money? The banana seller, one called Shah Alam from Bangladesh, literally cried after knowing this. Yes, a joke it was this all, a cruel one for the poor banana vendor. Artist Cattelan pontificates, ‘Art, by its nature, does not solve problems-- if it did, it would be politics’. Indeed, the banana vendor was stunned and left still poor. See ‘Art going bananas’.