For the price of the 100,000-yen modern art Umaibo you could get over 6,600 of the regular puffed corn snacks, and whether its buyers will display or eat their new snacks remains to be seen.
Tomokazu Matsuyama
Why did the crazy-expensive version of Japan’s super-cheap corn snack sell out? We ask the artist
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