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Why the banana in the tailpipe was more art than on a wall
In the 1980s, I was in a theatre for seven days with different people each day because the funniest guy on SNL put a couple of bananas into the tailpipe of two cops watching him.
That was art. It had a beginning and an end, and the movie is no longer part of the conversation, which it had not been for decades.
The joker who put the banana on the wall with duct tape wasn’t saying this is art. It was just the canvas, and all of us were filled with every emotion of anime, which made the artists’ renderings daily. I don’t see it ending soon because it is a great expression of many people’s lives.
The banana is a simple yet important fruit, and the duct tape is the easy road people tend to take, but the $6,000,000 that bought it was the art fan wanting to be the artist by helping with the story. Without the absurd purchase, which I believe was set up, the artist’s vision would not be fulfilled.
This piece of art grows every day, and hopefully, this simple example will be the subject of another post.
Google: “Man buys banana taped to a wall”
