Artist Jens Haaning was given money to use in a work of art, but instead, he pocketed it, turning in blank canvases titled "Take the Money and Run." He had until January 2022 to return the cash to ...

A Copenhagen court has ruled that Jens Haaning must return almost all of the 530,000 Danish krone ($76,000) he borrowed from a museum to create banknote-filled artworks that he never delivered.

When the exhibition closed, Haaning did not return the money ... he argued, keeping the money is itself the art. “I will go so far to say that the piece is that I have taken the money, ...