The yellow banana fixed to the white wall with silver duct tape is a work entitled "Comedian," by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan.

The conceptual artwork has an estimated value of between $1 million and $1.5 million at Sotheby's auction on Nov. 20.

Walk into any supermarket and you can usually buy a banana for less than $1. But a banana duct-taped to a wall?

Kennicott Washington, D.C., may boast the actual National Gallery of Art, but the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York is the country’s de facto national museum. It is the most comprehensive ...

By Will Heinrich and Patricia Escárcega The first thing you learn from “Mexican Prints at the Vanguard” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is that printmaking has been central to Mexico’s ...