{"id":68007,"date":"2024-11-29T19:55:54","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:55:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/29\/crypto-entrepreneur-justin-sun-eats-banana-art-he-bought-for-6m-dollars"},"modified":"2024-11-29T19:55:54","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T10:55:54","slug":"crypto-entrepreneur-eats-banana-art-he-bought-for-6-2m","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=68007","title":{"rendered":"Crypto entrepreneur eats banana art he bought for $6.2m"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last week<\/p>\n<p>The cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (\u00a34.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to a wall \u2013 by eating the fruit.<\/p>\n<p>At one of Hong Kong\u2019s priciest hotels, <strong> <\/strong>Sun, 34, chomped down on the banana in front of dozens of journalists and influencers after giving a speech hailing the work as \u201ciconic\u201d and drew parallels between conceptual art and cryptocurrency.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2024\/nov\/29\/crypto-entrepreneur-justin-sun-eats-banana-art-he-bought-for-6m-dollars\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Conceptual work created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan was sold at auction in New York last weekThe cryptocurrency entrepreneur Justin Sun has fulfilled a promise he made after spending $6.2m (\u00a34.88m) on an artwork featuring a banana duct-taped to&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3584,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[546,91,41,6,310,71,1026,311,1948,48,58,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-68007","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-art","category-art-and-design","category-asia-pacific","category-business","category-cryptocurrencies","category-culture","category-e-commerce","category-food","category-fruit","category-hong-kong","category-technology","category-world-news"],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68007","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3584"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=68007"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68007\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":68008,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68007\/revisions\/68008"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=68007"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=68007"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=68007"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}