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An artist has lost his lengthy battle with a Danish museum after submitting two blank canvases and taking off with the loaned cash that was meant to be displayed inside the artworks.
Danish artist Jens Haaning was ordered by a Copenhagen court to pay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art 500,000 Danish kroner (around $76,500) after his audacious stunt set off a nearly two-year legal fight, media outlets including the BBC and NPR reported.
The pieces were based on two artworks Haaning originally debuted in 2007 and 2010—called An average Austrian annual income and An average Danish annual income, respectively—which were a comment on the salary of the average Danish and Austrian workers, and contained bank notes totaling those sums.
The museum in Aalborg had commissioned Haaning to recreate those artworks for its exhibit Work it Out, which asked visitors to question what they wanted from their careers, and were meant to have held a combined 534,000 kroner in cash for a 2021 exhibition.
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Danish artist Jens Haaning was ordered by a Copenhagen court to pay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art 500,000 Danish kroner (around $76,500) after his audacious stunt set off a nearly two-year legal fight, media outlets including the BBC and NPR reported.
The pieces were based on two artworks Haaning originally debuted in 2007 and 2010—called An average Austrian annual income and An average Danish annual income, respectively—which were a comment on the salary of the average Danish and Austrian workers, and contained bank notes totaling those sums.
The museum in Aalborg had commissioned Haaning to recreate those artworks for its exhibit Work it Out, which asked visitors to question what they wanted from their careers, and were meant to have held a combined 534,000 kroner in cash for a 2021 exhibition.
Artist ordered to pay museum back $77,000 after submitting 2 blank canvases under the title ‘Take the Money and Run’
Jens Haaning has lost a lengthy battle with a Danish museum after submitting two blank canvases and taking off with the loaned cash that was meant to be displayed inside the artworks.
