Episode 29: Maurizio Cattelan's Banana + Gustave Fayet, the Forgotten Gauguin Collector

This summer, someone walked off with a banana taped to a museum wall in Metz, and the museum filed a legal complaint. Zahra traces it back to Maurizio Cattelan, the self-taught Italian behind the solid-gold toilet, the Pope struck by a meteorite and a banana that sold for $6.2 million. She explains why eating it doesn't destroy the art, and the hosts take on everyone who says "I could do that." Then Sami tells the story of Gustave Fayet, a wealthy collector who bought Gauguins while Gauguin was broke and paid him triple what a dealer offered. Fayet was forgotten for decades, until one museum label caught the right person's eye. Plus: what a 19th-century collector's first few purchases can teach two beginners on a much smaller budget.