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BANANA MAN.(Doug Fishbone uses bananas in art installation)

Publication: The New Yorker

Publication Date: 04-NOV-02

Author: Kolbert, Elizabeth
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COPYRIGHT 2002 All rights reserved. Reproduced by permission of The Condé Nast Publications Inc.

When people came across the pile of bananas that Doug Fishbone had arranged in the middle of Washington Street, in Brooklyn, the other day, they naturally had a lot of questions. They wanted to know how many bananas Fishbone had used (seventeen thousand), where he had got them (from a wholesaler at Hunts Point Market, in the Bronx), how much he had paid for them (almost seventeen hundred dollars), and whether he intended the pile as art. (He did, but he wasn't particularly insistent on this point.) Many people took one look at the pile and immediately decided that it...

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