'I don't see that I have stolen money... I have created an art piece, which is maybe 10 or 100 times better than what we had planned. What is the problem?' A museum lent an artist $84K — so he kept the money and called it 'art.'
ContributorsWhen an exhibition about the future of labor opened at a Danish art museum on Friday, visitors should have seen two large picture frames filled with banknotes worth a combined $84,000.
But when the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg took delivery of the recreated artworks ahead of the show, gallery staff made a surprising discovery: the frames were empty. Rather than being the handiwork of thieves, the loaned cash was missing thanks to Haaning himself, who says he is keeping the money -- in the name of art.
The new works, collectively titled "Take the Money and Run," pictured at the Kunsten Museum of Art in Aalborg, Denmark.The"new" conceptual piece, which Haaning has titled"Take the Money and Run," is now at the center of a dispute between museum and artist over labor, contractual obligations and the value of work -- all fitting themes for the exhibition.
"I normally find myself in a better position when I'm showing abroad," he said."I'm a Dane and it's Danish museum and they expect me to invest because then maybe one day they will buy something."
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