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For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled 'Take The Money And Run'
The money was supposed to be used to create modern art. And it was — but not in the way a Danish museum expected when it gave an artist the equivalent of $84,000. In return, it received two empty canvases.
The artist, Jens Haaning, says the blank canvases make up a new work of art — titled "Take the Money and Run" — that he calls a commentary on poor wages. One thing it's not, he says, is a theft.
"It is a breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work," he said, according to Danish public broadcaster DR.
"The work is that I have taken their money," Haaning stated.
The Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg isn't satisfied with that explanation, but that hasn't stopped it from displaying the two canvases as part of its exhibition called Work It Out, which explores people's relationship with work.