Money, MONEY.

“Money Dress” by Dave Cole

Made of 1,000 unused single dollar bills, which Cole cut into raw materials, this 66" x 30" x 14" dress was displayed in the 2007 Radical Lace & Subversive Knitting exhibit at New York City’s Museum of Arts and Design, which was devoted to “using fiber in unexpected and unorthodox ways.” 

Cole made the bills into continuous strands and used them to knit the dress in a pattern of a Vera Wang gown.

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Currency Collage By Chad Person

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Katie Holmes, "Mad Money"

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Sean Diediker Money Portrait

Utah-based folk artist Sean Diediker uses money and his creative skills to make portraits. Sean has now become a famous name in the US with many clients ready to pay him a substantial amount of money to buy his artworks made using only money. One of the most famous creations of Sean is the portrait of media baron Donald trump, which has been created using $1 bills. Sean uses only dollar bills and then folds them strategically to create amazing portraits. Sean has created the portrait of Abraham Lincolm using $5 bills and for George Washington’s portrait. This talented artist has used $1 bills. Sean’s most expensive work so far is the portrait of former US president Andrew Jackson, which he has created using over $30,000 in $20 bills.

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Sofa Made of Coins by Johnny Swing

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This gleaming sofa, a sculpture called ‘All the King’s Men’ by Johnny Swing, is crafted from welded coins on a steel support. It took thousands of half-dollar coins to create this 97-inch-long work of art.

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$100,000 on the Guggenheim Museum Walls

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When artist Hans-Peter Feldmann won the Biennial Hugo Boss Prize, bestowed by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation for achievement in contemporary art, he was awarded $100,000 and a solo exhibition at the Guggenheim. This is what he chose to do with both. 100,000 dollar bills cover the gallery walls and pillars. “I’m 70 years old, and I began making art in the ’50s,” Mr. Feldmann told the NY Times .“At that time there was no money in the art world. Money and art didn’t exist. So for me, $100,000 is very special. It’s incredible really. And I would like to show the quantity of it.”

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Dollar Bill Koi by Mizu Kami and Won Park

Noted currency artist Won Park came up with the design for this intricately folded origami koi fish made from a dollar bill, which was physically created by Mizu Kami.

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"Money Makes the World Go Round" from 1972 film Cabaret, starring Liza Minelli and Joel Grey.

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“I like money on the wall. Say you were going to buy a $200,000 painting. I think you should take that money, tie it up, and hang it on the wall. Then when someone visited you, the first thing they would see is the money on the wall.”

–The Philosophy of Andy Warhol

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Tobias Meyer, Worldwide Head Contemporary Art, Sotheby's, with Lot 22, "200 One Dollar Bills," by Andy Warhol, 1962, silkscreen and pencil on canvas, 80 ¼ by 92 ¼ inches

Bright galleries and exquisite lighting set an up-beat mood at Sotheby's for desirable Post War and Contemporary Art set to go on the block at their Evening Sale on November 11, 2009 in New York. Illustrated above with Tobias Meyer, Worldwide Head of Contemporary Art Sotheby's, is Andy Warhol's seminal "200 One Dollar Bills," of 1962, that has not been seen in public since Sotheby's sale of the Estate of Robert C. Scull in 1986.

The Andy Warhol painting of 200 dollar bills sold for $43.8 million at the New York art auction by London-based art collector Pauline Karpidas, more than 100 times what she paid in 1986.