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Danish artist Jens Haaning ordered to return €67,000 to a museum after he supplied it with two blank canvasses for a project he named "Take the Money and Run"

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https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-66847139

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Danish artist told to repay museum €67,000 after turning in blank canvasses
Published
Sep 18 2023

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  1. Minty
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    This is exactly how I believe this should have went, minus the court: take money, supply blanks, get popcorn to observe the resulting pandemonium, then return the money minus expenses just before...

    A court has now ordered him to return the cash - but keep some for expenses.

    This is exactly how I believe this should have went, minus the court: take money, supply blanks, get popcorn to observe the resulting pandemonium, then return the money minus expenses just before legal action is taken. Jens and the museum would benefit from the attention, and the court and so the society would benefit from lack of it.

    11 votes
  2. godzilla_lives
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    Heh, I love it. Outlaw performance art at its finest.

    Museum director Lasse Andersson said that he had laughed out loud when he first saw the two blank canvasses in 2021, and decided to show the works anyway.

    "He stirred up my curatorial staff and he also stirred me up a bit, but I also had a laugh because it was really humoristic," the museum's director, Lasse Andersson, told the BBC's Newsday programme in 2021.

    Heh, I love it. Outlaw performance art at its finest.

    8 votes