A piece of conceptual art consisting of a simple banana, duct-taped to a wall, sold for $6.2 million at an auction Wednesday, with the winning bid coming from a prominent cryptocurrency entrepreneur.

One subspecies, the Pacific banana slug, can grow up to 9 inches long, making it the second-largest slug in the world. The banana slug is often bright yellow, though it can be brown, white, and green.

Days after Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan's duct-taped banana work went viral, the art piece saw a splitting new development: A man ate the real-life $120,000 banana stuck to the wall at Art ...

The banana that consumed the art world has taken early retirement.. The artist Maurizio Cattelan — whose fruit pinned to the wall with gray duct tape was sold three times at Art Basel Miami, for ...