Our daily hot girl walk around the world

🇩🇰 A Danish artist was ordered to repay a museum after submitting blank canvases as commissioned works. In 2021, the Kunsten Museum of Modern Art Aalborg paid artist Jens Haaning the equivalent of $76,000 to recreate two of her earlier artworks that used tens of thousands worth of banknotes to represent average incomes across the EU. Instead, Haaning sent over two blank canvases in a submission titled Take the Money and Run (lmao), which the museum ended up exhibiting in its show alongside a caption. A Danish judge yesterday ordered Haaning to repay the museum most of the money, with an artist’s fee and viewing fee deducted from the judgment.

🇺🇳 The UN General Assembly kicked off in NYC this week. President Biden delivered an address yesterday calling for more international support for a range of issues including Ukraine, food security, and global infrastructure. Biden was followed by Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, who asked UN nations to support his 10-point peace plan to end the ongoing war against Russia. The US was the only permanent UN Security Council member in attendance, with officials from several countries – including France – suggesting the UN is no longer worth the diplomatic effort.

🇨🇳💒 Chinese marriage rates fell to their lowest level in decades last year. A recent report from China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs found some 6.8 million couples registered for marriage in 2022, representing a 10.5% decrease from the previous year, and the lowest figure since Beijing started tracking such data in 1986. Chinese birth rates also reached a new record low last year, prompting government officials to propose a series of programs aimed at increasing the amount of marriages and children in the country.