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The story you are about to read is not the plot of the next Coen Brothers film, it is all true. In 2021 the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Denmark gave Danish artist Jens Haaning $84,000 to recreate an older sculpture of Haaning\u2019s. The original 2007 work was covered with Danish krone bills and titled An Average Danish Annual Income<\/em>. The $84,000 the museum lent to Haaning in 2021 was supplied not as the payment but as materials for the recreation, to be included in an upcoming exhibition. Upon opening the finished work from Haaning, however, Kunsten MOMA was met with two blank canvases. At least they were framed. When asked to explain himself, Haaning said the pieces he had submitted were called Take the Money and Run<\/em>. In a quirky move, the museum included the blank canvases in the show, then waited for both the show\u2019s run and the terms of the agreement with Haaning to expire, before suing to get their funds back. This week saw the outcome of that lawsuit \u2014 Haaning has been ordered to pay back Kunsten MOMA nearly $72,000:<\/p>\n

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A Copenhagen court has ordered a Danish artist to repay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art nearly $72,000 after he delivered two empty frames in lieu of a commissioned artwork in 2021, claiming that the frames were a new conceptual piece, provocative titled Take the Money and Run.<\/p>\n

The museum had loaned the artist, Jens Haaning, 534,000 krone ($84,000) to recreate a 2007 sculpture, in the form of banknotes, titled An Average Danish Annual Income, which represented the salary using krone bills affixed to a canvas. A 2010 version used euros to represent a typical Austrian income.<\/p>\n

The Danish museum used money from its reserves to commission Haaning, and it wasn\u2019t until the works were being unpacked that staff realized they had been sent two empty frames instead. The museum displayed the works in the exhibition for which they were intended, but when the artist refused to repay the borrowed money after the show was taken down, as his contract had stipulated, it decided to take legal action.<\/p>\n

After a lengthy legal battle, the court ruled on Monday that Haaning must refund the museum 492,549 kroner ($71,000), the sum that he had been given minus the artist\u2019s fee and cost of mounting, within two weeks.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has been good for my work, but it also puts me in an unmanageable situation where I don\u2019t really know what to do,\u201d Haaning told the Danish news outlet dr.dk about the judgement, adding that he has no plans to appeal.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work is that I have taken their money,\u201d Haaning told the Danish radio program P1 Morgen in 2021. \u201cIt\u2019s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work.\u201d He also claimed that the conceptual trick was a protest against the artist\u2019s fee that he was offered, which he claimed was insufficient and would require him to spend 25,000 kroner ($3,900) of his own money.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are not a wealthy museum,\u201d the museum\u2019s director, Lasse Andersson, told the Guardian in 2021. \u201cWe have to think carefully about how we spend our funds, and we don\u2019t spend more than we can afford.\u201d The museum has declined to comment on the judgement since there is a four-week period in which it could still be appealed.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

[From Artnet News]<\/p>\n

In the spirit of this story, I wanted to submit blank commentary for this section, complete with a deadpan, on-the-nose title like You Said It Yourself That It Was Breach of Contract, Idiot<\/em>. But instead I\u2019ll use my words. Like the name \u201cwriter\u201d suggests (although the argument could be made that Haaning fulfilled the title of \u201cartist\u201d if you count \u201ccon artist\u201d). I\u2019m a little rusty on my Danish Art Commissioning law statutes, but the fact that Haaning brazenly said \u201cThe work is that I have taken their money. It\u2019s not theft. It is breach of contract, and breach of contract is part of the work,\u201d<\/em> seems fairly incriminating. But again, I\u2019m no legal scholar. So, has Haaning made a powerful statement on poor wages? Or does he come off as a gimmicky, ego-driven Artiste? At least he\u2019ll always have the satisfaction of not spending that $3,900 of his own money to make the piece back in 2021. He really showed them. Now we wait a month to see if Haaning appeals, and, more importantly, if he presents the appeal in the form of blank protest paper.<\/p>\n

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