Shah Alam Speaks: A Haiku

Shah Alam Speaks: A Haiku
Maurizio Cattelan's artwork Comedian features a banana duct-taped to a wall. One of its three editions is estimated to sell for between US$1m and US$1.5m at auction this month. Photograph: John Angelillo/UPI/Rex/Shutterstock

[The] 74-year-old fruit seller had no idea that one of his bananas...would one day be worth $6.2 million – The Independent

art is for the rich (the world has gone bananas) artists should be poor

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