0:00 [Music] for eighty-four thousand dollars an artist returned two blank canvases titled take the money and run all right this particular artist all right uh received this money from the museum the money was supposed to be used to create modern art so they get commissioned to create art for their exhibitions and whatnot uh and it was but not in the way that the danish museum expected when it gave that artist the equivalent of eighty four thousand dollars in kroners that's art though they received two uh empty canvases right i mean he got they got trolled i'll give you an exact oh that's a nice canvas two of them very white you got two of them all right got it from blick but buddy titled it uh take the money and run right the artist jen's uh haining says the blank canvases make up a new work of art title take the money and run that he
0:51 calls it commentary on poor wages one thing it's not he says is a theft explicitly he still was willing to comment and still like comment on all this you know he says uh the danish museum says it's a breach of contract and the breach of contract is oh no he says it's a breach of contract but the breach of contract is part of the work that's what makes it what is art how much the paint weighs on the canvas sirs he says the work is that i have taken their money because in uh in this day and age an artist uh kind of like i guess his his idea obviously in modern art was to be like um basically put you can a a museum will be willing to like be like here's a bunch of cash and they had expected to contract and to take that money and literally put in the art to express modern art using the cash and he called it take the money and run
1:42 he because that's modern art he's like you're willing to pay 84 000 to put in the art but you won't be willing to pay the artist to create that i think that's dope you know what i'm saying in terms of having that so he's like no i'm taking that money yeah the only irony in that is that the contract of the art piece says that the money that would have been used to create the art is to be returned at the end of the contract in january wait why the ████ would he return the money if he's doing the work for i don't get it in terms of using the actual money to create physical materials all of it has to be used 84 g's of paint oh no no like money like literal money cash the paper they have to tape it to the canvas or something he was supposed to use that money all right reversible way where they can take it back off and yeah yeah that was like the idea of it oh yeah that's different then i didn't know that ████ oh they wanted cash to be used i believe so yeah are you sure it's not
2:32 the cost of the material it's the value but but the actual they they gave it in chronos physical bills they wanted to create an art with it yeah so how would he do it without damaging the money and then being able to extract it back out and glue stick baby yeah that doesn't damage it so he sends two large crates to the museum as they uh prepared to mount the work themed uh show that opened the previous weekend and when they opened the boxes they were surprised to find two blank canvases ceo of the museum says he actually laughed as he saw it and then uh it was obviously titled take the money and run so he kind of like got it in the moment um the delivery quickly provoked a flurry of emails and messages at the museum anderson says that while uh the ceo of the the museum he says that while hannah's initial work converted money into art the new work reminds us that we work for money and
3:22 also adds a new twist to the debate over how an artist's work should be valued hilarious he told the right people but contractually he still needs to get the money back oh yeah i mean but he did his job i mean look we're talking about it i saw it on instagram like everyone was talking about it i mean that's pretty genius he executed yeah so the museum's not taking legal action yet but i mean at the end of the day he like he said he did the job and it's provocative that's the whole problem right and then we're talking about it and we're just like yeah what is he couldn't have bought that reach and i didn't know that that's how they commission artists either like how museums i didn't know that they paid for it i thought it was just um you have an exhibit because you're being showcased or a theme or whatever and then you're just submitting your ████ that's crazy i don't know if they would necessarily always pay for it but in
4:12 this particular type of art concept if they're providing like the uh i guess in this sense it's the medium yeah right then that's like slightly different but still um obviously like like we talked about like why the ████ would we even know about any artwork that happens to come out into a modern contemporary art museum in you know nobody's talking about any of that ████ they're talking about this kind of ████ right yeah so it's good as much as it's simple i i guess i always respect any art that's done cleverly like this the first time right the second person did it's like danish dude did it already dude the banksy shredder move was like the greatest i ████ love that move so good you buy it and it goes that was the greatest ████ thing and watching all them was going oh my ████ god perfect and then valuing it even more again well yeah and then and then going like surely
5:02 we can make more money from this huh i was at the um season caesar forum shops in vegas and they have stores that that basically sell like og picassos and whatever you can buy it um and then and i was just shocked because i thought it was just the art gallery and it was like cool stuff and then i walked up and i was like oh that looks like a picasso and then the the sales guy was quaint basically the the guy was like yeah you know they always say picasso is like the best uh i guess copier of his own art and i was like wait that's original picasso he goes yeah and i'm like oh ████ these are all originals because i never seen like a real one outside of a museum is there like a price tag on it yeah there you could you could get some for a couple grand well some of them are just sketches and whatever they're not like
5:53 the actual pieces that no they're they're his real copies his sketches his his his drawings his some paintings he's like i see his nft head right now yeah that's what i was thinking dude i was like holy crap so okay this is for 600 bucks this is that and i would go around and there's like you know rembrandts and all these other artists that we like learn about in art history these are the originals that you can buy that you can actually ████ and some of them are just sketches they're not like full paintings or whatever but they're still like in the thousands of dollars like some like low thousands yeah like affordable yeah like some of them i saw one it was like this little etching it was like 600 bucks what yeah it's like this small scam guys almost almost right now it sounds like it's i need someone
6:43 that knows this stuff that could come in stores yeah but they you know it's like going to buy a car right like you you got to have somebody with you that knows this stuff and they'll be like yeah that one that shouldn't be 600 or whatever that should be five and i'm like i want to get into art just for that just like nft ████ but i was like i always thought like where do you buy this stuff like you gotta you gotta go to an art thief in france and he has a closet full of ████ monets and ████ right that's true yeah who do you go to yeah just a ████ guy with a giant trench coat just framed a little bit who made that piece back there oh that's a bart it's a picasso how much do you think that's worth
7:33 this is a bobby lee original he actually did it during the sketch i collaborated with sriracha sauce oh that's sriracha yeah there's sriracha and this is bobby lee and i'm sure he touched his nuts at some point and rubbed it on the painting good nice yup that was like brush would you appraise this ad thirty dollars thirty dollars you should get all the guests to have some sort of ████ painting that's true huh and it was a small one yeah and we could make a whole wall out of it as a ryan may original and it's you know yeah let's do it that would be cool i have a canvas and some paint too you just got to put paint on your hair and you just do like wash it around yeah that'll be cool then we fill up these walls with just uh art from guests and fans we'll devalue these walls yeah let's do it the blank drywall's worth more it was worth way more actually we didn't know
8:23 the whole time this drywall looks expensive as ████ look at it it's been through a lot i still don't understand that the penis over there how it's so good yeah who shake that is that bart it wasn't meant to be a dick it wasn't meant to be in a ditch no but barb elbowed it your elbows the shape of a penis there's two balls on it there's a sack on it and a shaft it's not fair to them they can't see it it's not fair to them well turn the camera we could cut that out and then we'll sell it as an nfp oh that's a good nft dude i could pick throw it out all right yeah that ████ was pretty dope though man when he hit it it's definitely ████ and balls for sure okay especially for my ankle right here did you know like at the wind and the encore if you go uh above a certain floor which you have to get like a nice enough room to get it they have like those original da vinci whatever monets like it's all displayed
9:15 in the hallway and stuff there's like millions and millions worth of painting how do i protect that ████ he's one of the most um biggest collector a private collector of uh fine art well it's because uh those rooms are so expensive i think that kind of like weeds out who would be stealing or not got it cause it's like just other crazy ballers that are like oh cool let's just make it nice how expensive is the room and it is a casino those things are pretty it's like a bank you know oh yeah it's like a resort bank it's 100 bank the drawing [Music] yo let's go get let's go get some art let's go get some art like real art yeah real art with our with our ████ crypto i can't be spending more than 50 bucks go to art walk that's the limit you guys 50 bucks yo when i come up i'm gonna buy you guys all some picassos or something
10:06 put the sketches but not not the yeah yeah yeah i love that when i come up and buy y'all picasa sketches when i come up that's some ████ slack still sick though that's sick has anybody ever told you that in life when i come up i'm gonna do this and then they actually came up and you never got the thing never happened nah cause i'm usually the richest one in the room [Music] you
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