A visitor at France’s Pompidou-Metz museum bit into Maurizio Cattelan’s infamous banana artwork “Comedian” last week, prompting swift intervention from security. The $6.2 million piece – famously duct-taped to a wall – was quickly restored, as the artist lamented the guest ate only the fruit, not the tape. The conceptual work has now been consumed multiple times.


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