It's art!: Danish artist took RM352,000, delivered blank canvasses to a museum


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A woman stands in front of an empty frame hung up at the Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, Denmark. The Danish museum loaned an artist US$84,000 in cash to recreate old artworks of his using the banknotes, but the boxes he sent only contained blank canvasses and a new title: "Take The Money And Run". Photo: AFP

A Danish museum loaned an artist US$84,000 (RM352,000) in cash to recreate old artworks of his using the banknotes, but he ended up pocketing the money and sending blank canvasses with a new title: "Take The Money And Run".

Jens Haaning, a Danish artist, was commissioned by the Kunsten Museum in the western city of Aalborg to reproduce two works using the cash - Danish kroner and euros - to represent the annual salary in Denmark and Austria.

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