The $120,000 banana poo art

Performance artist David Datuna left a banana-shaped poo as an end-to-end meta-satire on modern art.

Just a day earlier, he removed a $120,000 duct-taped banana from an Art Basel exhibition in Miami Beach, peeled it and then ate it.

After being escorted out of the Galerie Perrotin space with no charges, Mr. Datuna felt sick at home.

“The banana was overripe and I have a sensitive stomach,” - he confessed. “I couldn’t miss this unique opportunity to add the final tag to this joke, so I slept on it and came back to Art Basel the following day.”

A crowd of art aficionados and influencers greeted an overnight legend with a round of applause - but they didn’t expect what would happen next.

“They say lightning never strikes the same place twice,” - Mr. Datuna laughed. “But they underestimate David Datuna!”

He then pulled down his pants and "released his creativity" in the shape of the original banana.

Bemused and stupefied art patrons went crazy as the police fenced the crime place and escorted Mr. Datuna again.

An Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan who originally came up with an idea of duct taping a banana to the wall said he was proud of what happened as this truly envisioned the collaboration of art community.

“It’s nice to see brave artists building on each other’s ideas, it’s like an improv comedy really.” - Mr. Cattelan said.

Gallery officials cleaned up the banana shit, but left the bigger question. If the banana was the idea in the first place, why would you remove its derivative feces and destroy the art work? Does the original always have to be better than the copy? Who is the moral judge that decides what's art and what's not? Only history will tell.