@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agoDanish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork told to repay funding.www.theguardian.comexternal-linkmessage-square16fedilinkarrow-up1119 cross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.cahumanities@beehaw.org
arrow-up1119external-linkDanish artist who submitted empty frames as artwork told to repay funding.www.theguardian.com@BonesOfTheMoon@lemmy.world to Not The Onion@lemmy.worldEnglish • 10 months agomessage-square16fedilink cross-posted to: offbeat@lemmy.cahumanities@beehaw.org
minus-squareCarighan MaconarlinkfedilinkEnglish21•edit-210 months agoWell it’s only fair, he essentially handed in an empty paper. You get an F for that in school, too. Plus he very openly mocked them about it, too.
minus-squareFuglyDucklinkfedilinkEnglish18•10 months agoOkay, this is…. Funny, but it sounds like some of the money was meant to be used in the artwork (the commission was to recreate prior work that used money to represent incomes of people,) So, funny, but, uh…. Morally dubious at best
minus-square@Ilovethebomb@lemmy.mllinkfedilinkEnglish6•10 months agoThe exhibition was meant to feature actual cash money, and the loan he is refusing to return was intended to be for that purpose. It’s not even payment that he’s holding on to.
Well it’s only fair, he essentially handed in an empty paper. You get an F for that in school, too. Plus he very openly mocked them about it, too.
Okay, this is…. Funny, but it sounds like some of the money was meant to be used in the artwork (the commission was to recreate prior work that used money to represent incomes of people,)
So, funny, but, uh…. Morally dubious at best
The exhibition was meant to feature actual cash money, and the loan he is refusing to return was intended to be for that purpose.
It’s not even payment that he’s holding on to.