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Man eats Sh12 million piece of art -- a banana taped to wall

A woman poses with Maurizio Cattelan's "Comedian" at Art Basel Miami 2019 -- before a performance artist pulled it off the wall and ate it. [AFP]

The move was bananas... or maybe the work was just too appealing.

A performance artist shook up the crowd at the Art Basel show in Miami Beach on Saturday when he grabbed a banana that had been duct-taped to a gallery wall and ate it.

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