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A Danish artist who pocketed large sums of money lent to him by a museum β and submitted empty frames as his artwork β has been ordered by a court to repay the funds.
Jens Haaning, a conceptual artist whose work focuses on power and inequality, was commissioned in 2021 by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, northern Denmark, to recreate two earlier works that used scores of banknotes to represent average incomes.
But when staff unpacked the newly delivered works, they found two empty frames with the title Take the Money and Run.
The museum put the new artworks on display, but when Haaning declined to return the money, it took legal action.
On Monday, a court in Copenhagen ordered the artist to repay the money that was loaned to him but said he should still be paid his fee.
If theyβre sitting in some shitty job and not getting paid, and are actually being asked to pay money to go to work, then grab what you can and beat it.β
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