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Cattelan’s $6.24M Banana Devoured Again: French Museum Visitor Eats Wall Art

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Cattelan banana spectacle returns at Centre-Pompidou Metz: a $6.24M banana taped to the wall is eaten by a visitor on July 12. “The banana is only a perishable element,” stated the museum, after security swiftly replaced the fruit per Cattelan’s precise instructions. Searchers wonder: why do people eat famous art and who buys edible installations?

Unlike previous banana-consuming incidents in Miami and Seoul, this French gallery-goer left tape and peel untouched, disappointing Cattelan, who’d hoped for a more avant-garde digestive performance. Trending queries ask: how often is Cattelan’s banana replaced? What happens to eaten art? The gallery dryly reported, “For now, it is perhaps the ‘most-eaten’ artwork of the last 30 years.”

Since 2019, Cattelan’s banana has been eaten at least three times worldwide, yet the tape—ever stoic—remains, as museums quietly budget for recurring potassium outlays in the name of conceptual art.

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