In 2019, the Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan created Comedian, a series of three identical pieces, each consisting of a fresh banana diagonally duct-taped to a wall. One is at the Guggenheim. Another was devoured by cryptocurrency platform founder Justin Sun, who paid $6.2 million for the fruit-based artwork at a Sotheby’s auction last November.
And the third was on display at Fredy’s Deli, the café aboard The World, in January when I visited the super-luxe residential megayacht. The C-suiters, surgeons, real estate tycoons, and tech innovators who live—at least for some months of the year—on the 644-footlong ship can gaze at the controversial conceptual artwork on their way to grab one of Fredy’s excellent smashburgers.
