Dealer Larry Gagosian said "colllectors are taking their time" on the fair's first day

The artist is debuting a new work, intended as a statement on gun violence, at Gagosian’s stand

The crypto entrepreneur spoke to The Art Newspaper about his journey into collecting, how he feels technology is transforming the art market, and more

Justin Sun, who purchased the work just last week, also pledged to buy 100,000 bananas from the vendor who originally sold the fruit for $0.25

Exploring this week’s New York auctions, which included Maurizio Cattelan’s now-infamous fruit, plus a tribute to the late German-British artist Auerbach and a chat with Sobekwa about a work from his powerful series, on view at the UK’s Sainsbury Centre

The buyer, the collector and crypto investor Justin Sun, immediately vowed to eat the banana

"Comedian" (2019) is one of the most viral (and controversial) works of art of the past decade; Sotheby's is betting it has not lost its a-peel

At Gagosian, he trains his weapon of social satire on violence as a source of wealth

The artist's latest work, on show at Gagosian, was created with the help of a Brooklyn gun range

Loo worth £5m was removed from Blenheim Palace in 2019

The judge dismissed a suit brought by artist Joe Morford claiming he had made the original taped-banana work in 2001

The student, who was visiting a major Cattelan exhibition at the Leeum Museum of Art in Seoul, taped the empty banana peel back to the wall

Actor’s tortured solo performance as a thief fails to steal the show

Joe Morford claims that the viral Comedian piece infringes copyright on his own duct tape work Banana & Orange

Daniel Druet, who created hyperrealist likenesses of Pope John Paul II, Hitler and others for Cattelan, was seeking €6m in compensation and to be declared the works’ “sole author”

As Milano Art Week begins, Massimo de Carlo gallery is exhibiting the artist's one-work project while the crematorium is hosting one of his important early works

The artist behind 2019's viral banana installation talks to us about his newest pigeon sculptures at Miami, what he hopes his art communicates to audiences, and why it was important for him to create a 9/11 memorial

Idea for the project was considered "too emotionally fraught" for New York by Guggenheim chief curator

Curator Francesco Bonami has created his own version for the British artist as a consolation prize

From Maurizio Cattelan's Bedtime Stories to Neïl Beloufa's post-capitalist fable featuring camels and foxes

Creating the ultimate art shock takes more than sticking a banana to the wall

As Notre Dame burned, protestors called the shots and a gold toilet vanished, it was certainly a year to remember

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

Miami collectors William and Beatrice Cox will donate the fruit piece to an unnamed institution

The piece of fruit taped to a wall at Art Basel in Miami Beach "offers insight into how we assign worth", Perrotin gallery says

Man arrested after 18-carat lavatory was forcibly removed from Blenheim Palace