A museum gave an artist $84K so he kept the money as “art”
A museum lent an artist 84 thousand dollars and so he kept the money and gave them blank canvases.
A Danish museum paid an artist to recreate 2 famous works of his.
The original pieces used framed cash to represent the average annual salary of an Austrian person and a Danish person.
The museum paid him to recreate them but when they received it the frames were empty.
He told them in an email that now displays next to empty frames:
"I have chosen to make a new work for the exhibition, instead of showing the two 14- and 11-year-old works respectively”
"The work is based on/responds to both your exhibition concept and the works that we had originally planned to show."
The "new" conceptual piece, he has titled "Take the Money and Run"
"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?"