Culture
Stolen 'Banana Art' in France Fuels Online Mockery
Maurizio Cattelan's 'Comedian' — a banana taped to a wall — was stolen from Centre Pompidou-Metz, and the museum filed a report. Because the piece is literally a banana and tape, and was swapped for a fresh one right away, Japanese reactions skewed toward puns and ridicule of conceptual art rather than treating it as a serious crime.