A performance artist on Monday defended his banana-eating work over the weekend at Art Basel in Miami Beach, boasting he would have done it even earlier but "I was not too hungry." David Datuna ...

“It’s not vandalism, I’m a performance artist," David Datuna said proudly of the stunt, which has permeated the internet and the mainstream press. Artist David Datuna at a press conference in New York ...

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NEW YORK (WABC) -- A man is talking about the moment he removed a $120,000 banana from an exhibition, peeled it and ate it at a Miami art gallery this weekend. New-York based performance artist, David ...

"When I started to eat it, people around me were like, 'Please don't do it,'" Datuna tells PEOPLE Georgian performance artist David Datuna isn’t sorry he ate the infamous banana that was fastened to a ...

"It's very delicious," performance artist David Datuna said of the banana artwork Looking at art can work up an appetite! Around 1:45 p.m. local time on Saturday afternoon, performance artist David ...

Artist David Datuna with his fan Christiano Boria at The Hungry Artist in Chelsea, Manhattan (all photos by the author for Hyperallergic) David Datuna, the New York-based artist who famously ingested ...

I am a Lifestyle reporter at Forbes, focusing on beauty & style. The viral moment earned Datuna the moniker of “The Hungry Artist.” In 2019 the Brooklyn-based creative ate a banana that was part of an ...

Artist David Datuna went viral as the man who ate the $120,000 banana duct-taped to the wall at Art Basel Miami. "I don't like bananas," Datuna said. "But again, I very enjoyed when I ate this banana.