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The Kunsten Museum commissioned Haaning to reproduce two of his earlier pieces in which he represented the annual wages of Austrian and Danish workers by framing piles of [[Danish krone|kroner]] and [[euro]] bills, offering the artist with 532,549 Danish kroner to use for the reproductions; instead, Haaning delivered two blank canvases to the museum. The museum demanded that Haaning return the money that was originally intended for the artwork, and in turn triggered a response from the author: |
The Kunsten Museum commissioned Haaning to reproduce two of his earlier pieces in which he represented the annual wages of Austrian and Danish workers by framing piles of [[Danish krone|kroner]] and [[euro]] bills, offering the artist with 532,549 Danish kroner to use for the reproductions; instead, Haaning delivered two blank canvases to the museum. The museum demanded that Haaning return the money that was originally intended for the artwork, and in turn triggered a response from the author: |
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{{Quote|This is only a piece of art if I don't return the money.|Jens Haaning<ref>{{cite web | title=Jenns Hanning Delivered Two Blank Canvases to a Danish Museum | website=The New York Times | date=September 1, 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/europe/danish-museum-artist-jenns-haaning.html | access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>}} |
{{Quote|This is only a piece of art if I don't return the money.|Jens Haaning<ref>{{cite web | title=Jenns Hanning Delivered Two Blank Canvases to a Danish Museum | website=The New York Times | date=September 1, 2021 | url=https://www.nytimes.com/2021/10/01/world/europe/danish-museum-artist-jenns-haaning.html | access-date=September 1, 2021}}</ref>}} |
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Kunsten Museum has since filed a [[civil lawsuit]] to recover the money from Haaning.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://kunsten.dk/en/content/take-the-money-and-run-clarification-of-concepts-and-faq-13446|title=Take the Money and Run – Clarification of Concepts and FAQ|website=Kunsten|accessdate=2022-11-07|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220806092355/https://kunsten.dk/en/content/take-the-money-and-run-clarification-of-concepts-and-faq-13446|archive-date=2022-08-06|url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{cite news|url=https://cphpost.dk/?p=130570|title=Art museum issues lawsuit to recover funds from 'Take the Money and Run' artist|newspaper=[[The Copenhagen Post]]|date=2022-01-17|first=Ben|last=Hamilton|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220609174310/https://cphpost.dk/?p=130570|archive-date=2022-06-09|url-status=live|access-date=2022-11-07}}</ref> |
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Revision as of 21:05, 7 November 2022
Take the Money and Run is a piece of artwork by Jens Haaning, commissioned by the KUNSTEN Museum of Modern Art Aalborg in Denmark in 2021.[1][2][3] The artwork consists of an empty canvas, intended to act as a commentary on poor work wages.[2]
The Kunsten Museum commissioned Haaning to reproduce two of his earlier pieces in which he represented the annual wages of Austrian and Danish workers by framing piles of kroner and euro bills, offering the artist with 532,549 Danish kroner to use for the reproductions; instead, Haaning delivered two blank canvases to the museum. The museum demanded that Haaning return the money that was originally intended for the artwork, and in turn triggered a response from the author:
This is only a piece of art if I don't return the money.
— Jens Haaning[4]
Kunsten Museum has since filed a civil lawsuit to recover the money from Haaning.[5][6]
References
- ^ "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."". CBS News. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link) - ^ a b Chappell, Bill (29 September 2021). "For $84,000, An Artist Returned Two Blank Canvasses Titled 'Take The Money And Run'". NPR. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Danish museum wants artist to pay back money after producing blank canvasses". BBC News. 30 September 2021. Retrieved 30 September 2021.
- ^ "Jenns Hanning Delivered Two Blank Canvases to a Danish Museum". The New York Times. 1 September 2021. Retrieved 1 September 2021.
- ^ "Take the Money and Run – Clarification of Concepts and FAQ". Kunsten. Archived from the original on 6 August 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
- ^ Hamilton, Ben (17 January 2022). "Art museum issues lawsuit to recover funds from 'Take the Money and Run' artist". The Copenhagen Post. Archived from the original on 9 June 2022. Retrieved 7 November 2022.
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