BlogDiary
Banana tape artist Maurizio Cattelan creates Vanity Fair Hollywood cover featuring Zendaya and Awkwafina
BlogDiary
Cattelan’s notorious banana finds a home at the Guggenheim
NewsDamien Hirst
Damien Hirst offers to swap any work for viral duct-tape banana—but Maurizio Cattelan says no
Curator Francesco Bonami has created his own version for the British artist as a consolation prize
ReviewThree to see
Three virtual readings to check out this weekend
From Maurizio Cattelan's Bedtime Stories to Neïl Beloufa's post-capitalist fable featuring camels and foxes
BlogDiary
Performance artist who ate Maurizio Cattelan's $120,000 banana launches interactive food show in New York
Visitors to "Hungry Artist" are invited to rip off and eat common snacks displayed on gallery Ca’d’ Oro's walls
BlogDiary
Post-Banana Art: Maurizio Cattelan offers a light bulb in his likeness
AnalysisThe Year in Review 2019
King Tut’s golden year, Koons’s worst: the highs and lows of the art world in 2019
As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember
Podcast
Bananaman: who is Maurizio Cattelan? Plus, art and comedy
Everything you need to know about the artist behind the infamous banana. Plus, we talk to UK comedians Rob Auton, Jenny Eclair and Annie McGrath about the charity exhibition Art is the Best Medicine. Produced in association with Bonhams, auctioneers since 1793
NewsAcquisitions
Permanent a-peel: $120,000 banana will enter museum collection
Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution
NewsArt Basel in Miami Beach 2019
Maurizio Cattelan presents first new work for a fair in 15 years—and it is a banana priced at $120,000
The piece of fruit taped to a wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach "offers insight into how we assign worth", Perrotin gallery says
NewsArt theft
'I wish it was a prank': Maurizio Cattelan on the surreal theft of his golden toilet
Man arrested after 18-carat lavatory was forcibly removed from Blenheim Palace
InterviewMaurizio Cattelan
'Art's most high-profile provocateur' Maurizio Cattelan on his new Blenheim Palace show
Known for this dangling horse and gold toilet, the Italian artist's exhibition is in the unlikely setting of Winston Churchill's birthplace
NewsCopyright
Bad guy? Billie Eilish video by Dave Meyers mirrors the work of artists Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari
The director seems to once again have borrowed from the work of visual artists, which has previously led to lawsuits against Kendrick Lamar and Ariana Grande
NewsMaurizio Cattelan
Maurizio Cattelan’s golden toilet, once offered to Donald Trump, is on its way to the UK
The work will be in the Italian artist’s solo show and was recently celebrated in a “greatest hits” sculpture in the south of France
NewsExhibitions
Artists and projects announced for first Art Basel Cities Week in Buenos Aires
September event marks end of first year of the initiative overseen by Cecilia Alemani, the director of High Line Art, New York
BlogIn the frame
The art of laughter: first show at South London Gallery’s new Fire Station venue is comical
ArchiveArt Basel
Works by younger artists for cheaper prices favoured at Art Basel 2003
Art Basel '03 fair report
ArchiveExhibitions
London galleries: Our past shopping experiences immortalised at Hales Gallery
Maurizio Cattelan kicks out at English football, Paolini frames “the author” at the Lisson Gallery and Halley sticks to paint
CommentContemporary art
The five stages of an art world scandal
Creating the ultimate art shock takes more than sticking a banana to the wall
Ben Luke