Danish artist must repay funding after submitting empty frames titled "Take the money and run"


A Danish artist supplied with 532,000 krone (~$76,000) by a museum to recreate a work featuring cash pinned to a canvas instead turned in empty frames with the title "Take the money and run," which he did. Jens Haaning must now pay it all back, ruled a judge, minus the 40,000 krone (~$7,000) actually specified as the artist's fee.
At the time, Lasse Andersson, the director of…
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