Okay, tell me if you've heard this one before. Two Chrises walk into an art gallery. One of them eats a banana right off the wall. The other says, "That's a $6.2 million banana!"
Oh you have? Well apparently not everyone has, since it's the punchline of Meta Ray-Ban's second Super Bowl commercial of 2025. Don't worry, we move on quickly from there. Life's too short to discuss that dumb banana art for another second on this podcast.
Instead, in this episode we talk about work lurking in the background by Damien Hirst, who holds records for both highest artist net worth and highest artistic body count. We also explore real-life instances of people destroying art, including the viral Ecce Homo "restoration" to a hapless student requiring 22 firefighters to surgically extract him from a vaginal cavern of a sculpture at a German university.
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