This story is hillarious!!
EU duped by "artist"
Seems the guy got a bunch of money (which he now says he'll return) to construct sculptures of each of the EU countries. Then he ended up mocking said countries!! He just got a bunch of his buddies together and made up ridiculous themes for each country.
He also made up the different artists to produce the sculptures. The funniest part of this is the official brochure showing the different sculptures for each country, and which fake artist produced each sculpture - totally fictional.
EU Sculpture Brochure
How sophisticated is that Euros? This scam makes me feel good about my priceless collection dogs-playing-poker on velvet.