charging $120,000 for a banana was highway robbery, a Danish museum gave an artist $84,000 to use in a commissioned piece — only to have him pocket the cash and turn in two blank canvases cheekily entitled “Take the Money and Run.”The blank robbery occurred after the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg asked Danish artist Jens Haaning to re-create two of his prior works: 2010’s “An Average Danish Annual Income” and “An Average Austrian Annual Income,” first exhibited in 2007, CBS News reported.
Those politically charged pieces used actual banknotes to showcase the average incomes of citizens of Denmark and Austria, respectively.The reboots were slated to appear in “Work it Out,” a current exhibition on the role of artists in the labor.
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