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But if they had paid him to create completely new art, it wouldn't have been an authentic performance of "Take the money and run", but a mere simulacrum. The breach of contract is the artwork.

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Nice. And now the museum can create a piece of art in response called "Repercussions". (Or, maybe it was all one piece of art all along.)

I like it. They could request the judge that he serves his time inside the museum itself, in a cell prepared just for him where visitors can observe his daily routine. He will not only participate in one of the greatest modern art performances of all time, but he will indeed become the artwork.

And at the end they could burn the artist and issue an NFT.

An NFT? More like one NFT for every of his screams while he's burning to death, and they wouldn't record any so the screams can't be duplicated.

1 year later... the artist is alive and well, enjoying a mojito on a Cuban beach with a satisfied smile.

It's almost like you're saying that an NFT doesn't actually capture the thing it's correlated with. But if that was true it would completely undermine the concept of an NFT of an art work. The NFT wouldn't have any more unique value than an item # in a catalog.

That would actually be pretty interesting as art, I think.

It's been done...

https://www.antepavilion.org/hackney-fight

I beg you, if you have gotten this far, watch this 10 minute video about the above link - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8xhdL8BPvU

It's one of the most entertaining things I've seen this year.

Clearly it is art and heist. But the law doesn't care too much if your crime is a work of art.

We can call it "art crime".

No, no, it's "crime art".

Hmm maybe fraud? Breach of contract at most? Not a crime. Arguably he delivered something. It could also been just an invisible artwork.

Was the money supposed to be in the artwork as a medium? Maybe there’s a Bitcoin address on the frame or something.

I don't know where you're from but in Denmark fraud is a crime!

Yes maybe it is fraud it would depend on the contract. But he delivered something and did they accept it as in take possession?

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