A $6M banana, $350k watch, $270 nachos: The most outrageous purchases in 2024

Photo caption: Chinese-born crypto founder Justin Sun speaks before eating a banana artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape, in Hong Kong on November 29, 2024, after buying the provocative work of conceptual art by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan at a New York auction for $6.2 million. Photo credit: Peter Parks / AFP via Getty Images. Article by Esther Luz. Salon – December 19, 2024.

What’s  on your holiday shopping list? I’m guessing it’s not a $3.5 million Yayoi Kusama painting or a $4.75 million David Hammons piece. But that’s what the rich were buying at Art Basel, the annual prestigious art fair that wrapped in early December in Miami Beach. When I lived in Miami for a few years I couldn’t help but fall victim to the city’s […]

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