This is getting bananas!
The wall that featured the $120,000 duct-taped banana — before the fruit was gobbled up by a performance artist — was vandalized with the misspelled message, “Epstien didn’t kill himself.”
Roderick Webber, 46, was arrested Sunday on charges of criminal mischief at Art Basel after live-streaming himself scrawling the conspiracy-theory message in red lipstick, according to the Miami Herald.
“My name is ‘Epstein didn’t kill himself’ Webber,” he told the crowd that gathered around him as he said he was “just doing a little art.”
“It wasn’t vandalism, it’s art,” he repeatedly told security as he was being kicked out, video he posted on Facebook showed. He also said the gallery “invited” such performance art by setting a “precedent” with the banana display.
“This is the gallery where anyone can do art, right?” he said, referring to New York-based performance artist David Datuna eating the original banana as true “art.”
He also groused to cops, “If someone can eat the $120,000 banana and not get arrested, why can’t I write on the wall?” according to a police report obtained by the Miami Herald.
Webber, who openly identified himself, began his video by expressing shock at people crowding around to take photos of the empty white wall where the banana “art” had once been.
“Stupid can only be fought with more stupid. In a world where the idea of a banana is worth $120k, it is our moral obligation to mock, ridicule and crank the nonsense up to a million,” he wrote on Facebook Monday with video of the stunt.
He admitted that he had wanted to spray paint a stencil on the wall but there was “too much security.”
“There’s no prohibition on makeup,” Webber said in the video, as he smeared his fingers with lipstick.
As he started what he called “another performance piece,” someone near him could be heard sighing, “Here we go again.”
Then, as he misspelled the name of notorious pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who hanged himself at a Manhattan lockup this summer, someone else shouted, “Spellcheck!”
A spokesperson for Art Basel directed questions to authorities.
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