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• Danish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork told to repay funding

  18-09-2023 18:06
  
  Jens Haaning must return about 532,000 krone loaned by Kunsten Museum in Aalborg, court saysA Danish artist who pocketed large sums of money lent to him by a museum – and submitted empty frames as his artwork – has been ordered by a court to repay the funds.Jens Haaning, a conceptual artist whose work focuses on power and inequality, was commissioned in 2021 by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in Aalborg, northern Denmark, to recreate two earlier works that used scores of banknotes t
  
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• Danish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork ordered to repay £61,500

  18-09-2023 18:06
  
  Jens Haaning must repay money loaned by Kunsten Museum, court saysA Danish artist who pocketed large sums of money lent to him by a museum – and submitted empty frames as his artwork – has been ordered by a court to repay the funds.Jens Haaning, a conceptual artist whose work focuses on power and inequality, was commissioned in 2021 by the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art in northern Denmark to recreate two earlier works that used scores of bank notes to represent average incomes. Contin
  
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• Mantegna: The Triumphs of Caesar – you can hear the trumpets and smell the elephant dung

  18-09-2023 17:37
  
  National Gallery, London
  The full glory of ancient Rome blazes once more in this grand, yet very human, exhibition of paintings on loan from the royal collectionMore than 500 years ago, Andrea Mantegna, court artist to the Gonzaga family who ruled the north Italian city state Mantua, painted his dream of ancient Rome. In nine large, crammed canvases, he depicted scenes from a Roman victory pageant, or triumph. When the Gonzagas finally ran out of cash, these nine square pictures were bought by t
  
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