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Museum pays artist $84K — he delivers 2 blank canvases titled ‘Take the Money and Run’
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:07 pm
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:07 pm
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Just in case you thought charging $120,000 for a banana was highway robbery, a Danish museum gave an artist $84,000 to use in a commissioned piece — only to have him pocket the cash and turn in two blank canvases cheekily entitled “Take the Money and Run.”
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The blank robbery occurred after the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg asked Danish artist Jens Haaning to re-create two of his prior works: 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” first exhibited in 2007, CBS News reported. Those politically charged pieces used actual banknotes to showcase the average incomes of citizens of Denmark and Austria, respectively.
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But the curators first suspected something was amiss upon receiving an email from Haaning that said he had changed the artwork’s name to “Take the Money and Run.” Indeed, when museum staffers opened up the box containing Haaning’s contributions, they discovered two blank canvases — while the cash had disappeared entirely.
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Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:09 pm to DemonKA3268
$84k will buy a lot of Danishes
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:10 pm to DemonKA3268
So they hung it on the wall still? I didnt read the story
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:12 pm to DemonKA3268
He could explain it in a way that they would buy it, as an abstract concept of money corrupting.
This post was edited on 9/29/21 at 2:16 pm
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:13 pm to DemonKA3268
sO cLeVer!! 
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:15 pm to DemonKA3268
quote:they dont have the internet in central/northern europe to google this info themselves?
he Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg asked Danish artist Jens Haaning to re-create two of his prior works: 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” first exhibited in 2007, CBS News reported. Those politically charged pieces used actual banknotes to showcase the average incomes of citizens of Denmark and Austria, respectively.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:16 pm to DemonKA3268
This is probably this guys best work. His other stuff is garbage.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 2:28 pm to DemonKA3268
And there are a lot of idiots out there that will look at that blank canvas, declare it to be a masterpiece, and break out their check book.
Most of what passes for art is nothing more than a scam. Not unlike Robert Mapplethorpe getting federal funding for taking a photo of himself with a bullwhip up his arse.
Most of what passes for art is nothing more than a scam. Not unlike Robert Mapplethorpe getting federal funding for taking a photo of himself with a bullwhip up his arse.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 3:41 pm to DemonKA3268
That’s a masterpiece. The blank canvasses symbolize the result of Covid shutdowns in those 2 nations, resulting in many people with no income anymore. It can also represent the blank, bleak outlook of a society with little interaction and faces covered in masks, all with the same blank expression.
These are truly magnificent pieces of art and a quiet form of silent protest of the world we live in today.
These are truly magnificent pieces of art and a quiet form of silent protest of the world we live in today.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 3:42 pm to DaleGribble
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getting federal funding for taking a photo of himself with a bullwhip up his arse.
And to think I’ve been doing this for free all this time
frick
Posted on 9/29/21 at 3:52 pm to DemonKA3268
In my high school art class I once used a bunch of oil paints to write out "I like to waste paint" on a small 6in by 6in piece of poster board. The teacher gave me this WTF look but I told her that it was my reaction to our class trip to the MoMA in NYC. I could tell that she was still annoyed but she realized that even though I was clearly being a little shite that I was simply doing the kind of crap I had just seen on our trip and had to accept it as a legitimate work. I got an A- for the painting. 
Posted on 9/29/21 at 4:51 pm to deltaland
quote:That’s beautiful, man. Beautiful.
That’s a masterpiece. The blank canvasses symbolize the result of Covid shutdowns in those 2 nations, resulting in many people with no income anymore. It can also represent the blank, bleak outlook of a society with little interaction and faces covered in masks, all with the same blank expression. These are truly magnificent pieces of art and a quiet form of silent protest of the world we live in today.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 5:03 pm to DemonKA3268
He wasn't paid 84K, the 84K was to be used in the work of art. The original pieces used currency as the art (see one of them below) He just keep the cash they sent him.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 5:04 pm to DemonKA3268
Welcome to the world of modern art.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 7:56 pm to DemonKA3268
The European elite have been Laundering Money like this for centuries.
Their just rubbing it in now with fancier titles and shittier artwork.
Their just rubbing it in now with fancier titles and shittier artwork.
This post was edited on 9/29/21 at 7:57 pm
Posted on 9/29/21 at 8:15 pm to DemonKA3268
Anyone who rips off egghead artfags and then rubs it in their face, is aces in my book.
Posted on 9/29/21 at 8:19 pm to DemonKA3268
Is Banksy just getting lazy?
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