An over-ripe banana taped to an art gallery wall went viral when it sold for $120,000. The installation was placed in a museum, and the piece went viral again when a man ate it in an act of what he called performance art.
Boston playwright Ryan Landry joined Boston Public Radio on Tuesday for his recurring segment on arts and culture, "You Get The Picture," and decried the whole affair.
"Warhol started this whole thing and he's laughing in his grave," he said, referring to artist Andy Warhol's pop art movement. "I have more respect for the guy that ate it than the guy that duct-taped it to the wall. ... This crap has been happening in the art world for years, and people are just now starting to eat it."
Landry is founder of the Gold Dust Orphans acting company.
