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The E-Sylum:  Volume 4, Number 49, December 2, 2001, Article 15

MONEY AS ART

  J.S.G. Boggs isn't the only artist using money as a theme.
  The following story comes from ABC News:

  "ASPEN, Colo. - When Police Officer Rick Magnuson created
  a work of art titled, "I Dare You to Steal This $100," he knew
  he was asking for trouble.

  The conceptual artwork consisted of a small canvas with a
  $100 bill tacked to it and was displayed at the Aspen Art
  Museum.   "It was up for about a month before somebody had
  the guts to try to take it," Magnuson remarked. But eventually
  a clever museum-goer swiped it last Wednesday - and replaced
  it with five $20 bills.

  At first Magnuson wasn't amused, saying the piece had been
  defaced and its meaning altered.

  "I thought of my options. I think we determined at the [Police
  Department] that it was potentially criminal mischief - defacing
  somebody's art."

  Wayne Homren, Editor

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