 james stewart george boggs (born 1955) is an american artist, best known for his hand-drawn, one-sided depictions of u.s. banknotes (known as "boggs notes") and his various "boggs bills" he draws for use in his performances. he spends his "boggs notes" only for their face value. if he draws a $100 bill, he exchanges it for $100 worth of goods. he then sells any change he gets, the receipt, and sometimes the goods he purchased as his "artwork". if an art collector wants a boggs note, he must track it down himself. boggs will tell a collector where he spent the note, but he does not sell them directly.craig j. saper, networked art, university of minnesota press, 2001, pix.  isbn 0-8166-3707-5. his works are held in the collection of the art institute of chicago.www.artic.edu the moma in new york, the smithsonian institution, washington, d.c., babson college, wellesley, massachusetts, the norton museum of art, west palm beach, florida, the tampa museum of art, tampa, florida, the spencer museum of art, lawrence, kansas, and the british museum, london, england, to name but a few. boggs and his work are chronicled in boggs: a comedy of values, by lawrence weschler, published by the university of chicago press. == career == boggs (steve litzner) was born in woodbury, new jersey, u.s.a., in 1955. any person who gets a boggs note can usually sell it for much more than its face value: a $10 boggs note may be worth more than $1000. any person who knows about boggs is likely to accept a boggs note; for this reason, boggs prefers to spend his art with people who are unfamiliar with his work. he likes people to make a conscious choice to accept art instead of money, believing or knowing how much money his art is actually worth spoils it. he views these "transactions" as a type of performance art, but the authorities often view them with suspicion. boggs aims to have his audience question and investigate just what it is that makes "money" valuable in the first place. he steadfastly denies that he is a counterfeiter or forger, maintaining that a good-faith transaction between informed parties is certainly not fraud, even if the item transacted happens to resemble negotiable currency. recently, boggs has moved on beyond his hand-drawn works and embraced digital technology, creating his latest works on the computer. these works resemble paper money in fundamental ways but add subtle twists. one of his better-known works is a series of bills done for the florida united numismatists' annual convention. denominations from $1 to $50 (and perhaps higher) feature designs taken f
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