Maurizio Cattelan is the rare contemporary artist who ... is perennially deployed (often out of context) as an example of all that’s wrong with the art world today. “Comedian”—a banana ...

The new curatorial project at Fondazione ICA reveals an exceptional alignment between two artists, Birgit Jürgenssen and ...

Visitors to Anna Kustera Gallery in recent days may have been surprised to find not the usual bubbly, raven-haired proprietor in the office, but a surly, baritone-voiced Italian instead -- Maurizio ...

Maurizio Cattelan's famously provocative duct-taped ... And Sotheby's head of contemporary art in the Americas, David Galperin, agrees in all seriousness, that, "If at its core, Comedian questions ...

Artist Maurizio Cattelan and photographer Pierpaolo Ferrari first worked together as imagemakers in 2009, creating a prescient editorial for W magazine’s annual Art Issue. The pair went on to create ...

Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created the piece in 2019 for ... was so much crossover between the two efforts. My work is all about focus — where the eye will go. On depth of field, on ...

The banana is an artwork titled “Comedian,” by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. The buyer Justin Sun, founder of cryptocurrency platform Tron, plans to eat it. Photo: Sotheby's/Reuters ...

CEO Charles Stewart opened the January 23 press conference by stating that the auction house had one of its best years ...

Created by Maurizio Cattelan, an Italian contemporary artist ... Again, back to the idea of value, a concept at the core of all currency, not just cryptocurrency, Sun says: “High-profile ...

Damien Hirst has given his verdict on Comedian, the divisive work of art by Maurizio Cattelan, which consists of a banana duct-taped to a wall. The piece, which has been described as a commentary ...