And finally… not a bonk machine

And finally... not a bonk machine

A cash machine which displays its users cash balances on a leaderboard has stolen the show at this year’s Art Basel Miami.

The ATM with a twist posts a picture of its users alongside their bank balance and ranks them according to their total balance. A user with an account balance of $9.5 million (£7.7m) took the top spot on the “ATM Leaderboard” as of the fair’s last day, according to the creators of the machine art collective MSCHF.

Daniel Greenberg, co-founder of MSCHF, told CNN: “‘ATM Leaderboard’ is an extremely literal distillation of wealth-flaunting impulses.

“From its conception, we had mentally earmarked this work for a location like Miami Basel, a place where there is a dense concentration of people renting Lamborghinis and wearing Rolexes. These are analogous implicit gestures to the ATM Leaderboard’s explicit one.”



The project is a joint project between MSCHF and Perrotin Gallery.

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