Way back in the Before Times of December 2019, artist Maurizio Cattelan duct-taped a banana to a wall at Art Basel Miami Beach, called it Comedian, and sold it for $120,000. The usual harrumphing ensued, but given the more serious events of 2020, the episode faded from collective memory. At least until Pantone LLC, the company best known for its fan deck of color swatches that graphic designers and printers use, announced that its "colors of the year" for 2021 were 17-5104 and 13-0647-or what the rest of us know as gray and yellow, respectively. The duct-taped banana was trending again.
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