{"id":131405,"date":"2024-11-29T12:37:47","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T05:37:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131405"},"modified":"2024-11-29T12:37:47","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T05:37:47","slug":"art-collector-who-bought-a-6-million-banana-offers-to-buy-100000-more","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131405","title":{"rendered":"Art Collector Who Bought a $6 Million Banana Offers to Buy 100,000 More"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">A week after a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur <a class=\"css-yywogo\" href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/20\/arts\/design\/cattelan-banana-sothebys-auction.html\" title=\"\">bought an artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape for $6.2 million at auction<\/a>, the man, Justin Sun, announced a grand gesture on X. He said he planned on purchasing 100,000 bananas \u2014 or $25,000 worth of the produce \u2014 from the Manhattan stand where the original fruit was sold for 25 cents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But at the fruit stand at East 72nd Street and York Avenue, outside the doors of the Sotheby\u2019s auction house where the conceptual artwork was sold, the offer landed with a thud against the realities of the life of a New York City street vendor.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">It would cost thousands of dollars to procure that many bananas from a Bronx wholesale market, said Shah Alam, the 74-year-old employee from Bangladesh who sold the original banana used in \u201cComedian,\u201d an absurdist commentary on the art world by the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. And, it wouldn\u2019t be easy to move that many bananas, which come in boxes of about 100.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">And then there is the math: The net profit from the purchase of 100,000 bananas by Mr. Sun \u2014 who once bought an NFT of a pet rock for more than $600,000 \u2014 would be about $6,000.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThere\u2019s not any profit in selling bananas,\u201d Mr. Alam said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Plus, as an employee who makes $12 an hour during 12-hour shifts, Mr. Alam pointed out that any money would by rights belong to the fruit stand\u2019s owner, not him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Reached by phone, the stand\u2019s owner, Mohammad R. Islam, 53, who goes by Rana, said he would split any profit between himself, Mr. Alam and the six other people he employs at his two fruit stands. No one had contacted him about any such purchase, though, he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Islam had learned from a reporter of Mr. Sun\u2019s plans, which also included offering the bananas from Mr. Islam\u2019s stand for free worldwide, to anyone who showed identification, according to his post on X. Mr. Sun \u2014 who has also announced plans to eat the original banana during a Friday news conference at a Hong Kong luxury hotel \u2014 did not respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Working in the rain on Thanksgiving Day, Mr. Islam\u2019s brother, Mohammad Alam Badsha (who is not related to Mr. Alam) said he would welcome the bulk purchase. But it would have little tangible impact, Mr. Badsha said, either on the daily life of the fruit vendors, or on the gulf laid bare by the $6.2 million banana and the stand that sold it for a quarter.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-3\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cIt\u2019s definitely an inequality,\u201d Mr. Badsha said in Bengali.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">He added a Bangladeshi idiom: It was, he said, the difference between heaven and hell.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-798hid etfikam0\">Zachary Small<!-- --> and Debadrita Sur contributed reporting. <!-- -->Tiffany May<!-- --> contributed reporting from Hong Kong.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><div data-type=\"_mgwidget\" data-widget-id=\"1660802\">\r\n<\/div>\r\n<script>(function(w,q){w[q]=w[q]||[];w[q].push([\"_mgc.load\"])})(window,\"_mgq\");\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2024\/11\/28\/nyregion\/banana-sothebys-fruit-stand.html\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week after a Chinese cryptocurrency entrepreneur bought an artwork composed of a fresh banana stuck to a wall with duct tape for $6.2 million at auction, the man, Justin &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=131405\" class=\"more-link\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131405","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=131405"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131405\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=131405"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=131405"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=131405"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}