The Art of Discarded Lottery Tickets

An artistic twosome realizes dream desires from forgotten scratch-offs

Curious about how people spend their winnings after hitting it big with the lottery, collaborative artists Lauren Was and Adam Eckstrom channeled their research into astounding representational sculptures of dream desires like a Hummer, a yacht and a large home using scratch-off lottery tickets. Working under the moniker

Marco Brambilla: From Civilization To Power

CH exclusive: The making of Kanye West's newest music video "Power" with its artist/director

Kanye West has been kicking up controversy right and left recently—showing up at both the Facebook and Twitter HQs, turning his teeth to diamonds and engaging the public with his crude and prolific Tweets. After noticing Marco Brambilla‘s “Civilization” video installation in the elevators at The Standard New York Hotel in 2009, Kanye not only wrote about it on his blog, he commissioned the experimental …

Intersections Art Projects

A museum commissions young artists to create new work that riffs off of classics in their collection

Classic works of art combine with modern applications at Intersections, a progressive series of contemporary art projects. Started in October of 2009 by The Phillips Collection in Washington D.C., the initiative explores, “intriguing intersections between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and museum spaces and artistic interventions” by commissioning a young artist to create a work inspired by a classic piece in …