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Ryan Hogg

Artist ordered to pay museum back $77,000 after submitting 2 blank canvases under the title ‘Take the Money and Run’

(Credit: Henning Bagger—Ritzau Scanpix/AFP)

An artist has lost his lengthy battle with a Danish museum after submitting two blank canvases and taking off with the loaned cash that was meant to be displayed inside the artworks.

Danish artist Jens Haaning was ordered by a Copenhagen court to pay the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art 500,000 Danish kroner (around $76,500) after his audacious stunt set off a nearly two-year legal fight, media outlets including the BBC and NPR reported.

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