A museum says they gave an artist $84,000 in cash to use in artwork. He delivered blank canvases and titled them "Take the Money and Run."

[Race Jones]

A museum says they gave an artist $84,000 in cash to use in artwork. He delivered blank canvases and titled them "Take the Money and Run."

He was supposed to showcase pay discrepancies between Denmark and Austria, but he did not deliver what he promised.

www.cbsnews.com

A Danish artist was given $84,000 by a museum to use in a work of art. When he delivered the piece he was supposed to make, it was not as promised. Instead, the artist, Jens Haaning, gave the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, Denmark two blank canvases and said they were titled "Take the Money and Run."

Haaning was asked to recreate two of his previous works: 2010's "An Average Danish Annual Income" and "An Average Austrian Annual Income," first exhibited in 2007. Both used actual cash to show the average incomes of the two countries, according to a news release from the artist.

 

[yenofwu]

Well played sir....welllll playyyyyed

 

[deadeye]

Hilarious.


Hope people finally start realizing that a lot of what they consider art..........isn't really art.


It's mainly untalented people trying to pass off their lack of talent as some kind of abstract expression of art.


Which it really isn't.

 

[Disanthrope]

Hilarious.


Hope people finally start realizing that a lot of what they consider art..........isn't really art.


It's mainly untalented people trying to pass off their lack of talent as some kind of abstract expression of art.


Which it really isn't.

While the sentiment of what you're saying is true art is subjective so you can't really say something isn't art..even a blank canvas

 

[deadeye]

While the sentiment of what you're saying is true art is subjective so you can't really say something isn't art..even a blank canvas

Yeah, well, there's a thin line between subjectivity and bullshit.


Anyone trying to pass off a blank canvas as art is full of shit.

 

[Bradshaw73]

 

[VIBE]

the art of getting finessed

 

[Blue_London]

Blacklisted

 

[shutupGabi]

This is giving 500k or dinner with Jay energy. Mans chose the right option

 

[Loch121]

While the sentiment of what you're saying is true art is subjective so you can't really say something isn't art..even a blank canvas

The subjectivity of the painting isn't really the issue.

They gave him the cash to actually use on the painting as part of the concept for the painting like paper mache.

LOL they probably paid him 0-$5,000 to fuck up 84 K in cash.I didn't read the whole article so the details might be in it.

He might have ended his career,and might get charges or sued.

 

[Loch121]

This is giving 500k or dinner with Jay energy. Mans chose the right option

I'm pretty sure what he did was illegal.

Not just illegal,but bold.

 

[mike030270]

"We also have a contract that the money $84,000 US dollars to be displayed in the work is not Jens' and that it must be paid back when the exhibition closes on 16 January 2022," Andersson said.

Andersson said while it wasn't what they had agreed on in the contract, the museum got new and interesting art. "When it comes to the amount of $84,000, he hasn't broke any contract yet as the initial contract says we will have the money back on January 16th 2022."

The museum director said they'll wait and see what Haaning does, but if the money is not returned on January 16, "we will of course take the necessary steps to ensure that Jens Haaning complies with his contract."

Lol he's not keeping that money