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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums"Take the Money and Run": Probably not coming to a museum near you.
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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." https://cbsn.ws/2XXqaeh
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11:00 AM · Sep 28, 2021
CBS Sunday Morning 🌞
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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." https://cbsn.ws/2XXqaeh
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11:00 AM · Sep 28, 2021
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/jens-haaning-take-the-money-and-run-blank-canvases/?ftag=CNM-00-10aab8c&linkId=133611837
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.
In addition to compensation for the work, Haaning was also give bank notes to use in the work, museum director Lasse Andersson told CBS News via email. Their contract even stated the museum would give Haaning an additional 6,000 euros to update the work, if needed, Andersson said. At the time the works were initially exhibited, the Danish piece highlighted the average income of 328,000 kroner, approximately $37,800, while the average Austrian salary illustrated was around 25,000, or $29,000.
"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.
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"Take the Money and Run": Probably not coming to a museum near you. (Original Post)
Nevilledog
Sep 2021
OP
I feel (crosses arms, puts hand to chin) it's a representation of the vacuous sense of both
underpants
Sep 2021
#7
Mme. Defarge
(8,014 posts)1. But did he have a gub?
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)6. No no, that says "gun"
Mme. Defarge
(8,014 posts)10. It's a "b"!
No, its an n!
lame54
(35,268 posts)13. It's clearly an n but what's abt naturally?
Casady1
(2,133 posts)2. One of Woody Allen's best n/t
The Magistrate
(95,243 posts)3. I Want To Shake That Fella's Hand, Ma'am
Priceless.
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)4. And easy to decorate with, my dear.
Kid Berwyn
(14,808 posts)5. Bet it's worth a lot more than $84,000 now.
Gosh, the banana taped on a wall got appraised at $120,000.
BTW, which canvass is Run?
ZonkerHarris
(24,210 posts)17. yup. genius.
underpants
(182,632 posts)7. I feel (crosses arms, puts hand to chin) it's a representation of the vacuous sense of both
Oneness with humanity and yet our continual and unavoidable isolation.
Nevilledog
(51,031 posts)8. Obviously.
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)12. Heee!
lame54
(35,268 posts)9. It's upside down
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)11. Hahahaa!
FSogol
(45,452 posts)15. "Art is what you can get away with." - Andy Warhol
Vinca
(50,237 posts)16. Looks like stuff that has sold for millions to the too-much-money crowd.