05-09-2026 00:09 via artsjournal.com

Bannanas are serious business

Good Morning,Maurizio Cattelan, the man who taped a banana to a wall and watched it sell for $6.2 million, says his work has always been serious — the trouble is that people stop at the joke (The Guardian). Today’s stories keep making his point: things filed under “decorative” turn out to be structural the moment someone tries to remove them.Public television, for instance, is not just programming. Stations are hardwired into FEMA’s alert system, and when Congress d
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