Museum Gave Artist $84,000 To Use In Artwork. He Submitted 2 Blank Canvasses
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Jens Haaning defended keeping the money, saying "the artwork is essentially about the working conditions of artists".
A Danish museum loaned an artist 534,000 kroner ($84,000) in cash to recreate old artworks of his using the banknotes, but he ended up pocketing the money and sending blank canvasses with a new title: "Take the Money and Run".
Jens Haaning, a Danish artist, was commissioned by the Kunsten Museum in the western city of Aalborg to reproduce two works using the cash -- Danish kroner and euros -- to represent the annual salary in Denmark and Austria.
But the museum's director Lasse Andersson told AFP that "two days before the opening of the exhibition we got an email from Jens telling us he won't be showing the works we agreed on".
The artist was true to his word, sending two blank canvasses.
