Banana Art
“Comedian” by Maurizio Cattelan, on display in Miami in 2019 Graham Bowley is an investigative reporter for the Culture Desk for The New York Times. He has covered the darkest of darks, and the lightest of lights in arts and culture, from the allegations against Bill Cosby to the opening of National Museum of African American History and Culture. Bowley's writing style is somewhat analytical. This can be seen from quotes such as: "I n the case of “Comedian,” the subject is also the art world itself — and questions about who decides what constitutes art, and the huge amounts of money that is spent on it." " The sly work’s simplicity enticed collectors t o pay as much as $150,000 for it at a Miami art fair last fall, an act of connoisseurship that delighted them but astonished the many people who had not imagined that a, um, “sculpture” of fruit on a wall could command such a price." Bowley cites hi...