Ruskin Ready For a Revival, After the $120,000 Banana
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What would John Ruskin say? That’s the question I’m trying to process here in my studio in the backwoods of Maine, where I just discovered on the internet the front page of Friday’s New York Post. It boasts a photo of an artwork that consists of a banana attached to a wall with duct tape. It sold, the Post reports, for $120,000. And now the report is that some hungry maven pried the pricey banana loose and — no joke — ate it.
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