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Banana artwork stolen from French museum, police report filed

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The Pompidou-Metz museum in France has reported the theft of a banana from Maurizio Cattelan's artwork "Comedian." The fruit, which was duct-taped to a wall, was discovered missing by a guard. The museum has filed a police report and has already replaced the perishable component of the artwork. AI

RANK_REASON The event described is a minor, non-AI related incident of art theft and replacement, not fitting into any of the significant news categories.

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Banana artwork stolen from French museum, police report filed

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  1. SCMP — Tech TIER_1 English(EN) · Agence France-Presse ·

    French museum reports theft of banana from multimillion-dollar artwork

    A museum in eastern France on Sunday reported to police the theft of a banana that forms a core part of a multimillion-dollar artwork by Italian visual artist Maurizio Cattelan. The missing fruit – which was taped to a wall to form the provocative work by Cattelan called Comedian…

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