When an artist duct-taped a banana to a wall and priced it at $120,000 this week, we should probably have known where the story was heading. The work, by Maurizio Cattelan, was ripe for the ...

Installations by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan are famously provocative, but his signature work — a banana taped to a wall — fell prey to a basic impulse: the hunger it provoked in a South ...

Like a child, she reveled in the sight of the banana bunches and twigs (locally termed ‘buwig’), marveled at the colorful corkwood tree flowers (locally called ‘katuray’) and excitedly ...