Pop Culture on Coins

In his project “Tales You Lose,” artist Andre Levy takes the presidents, queens and other political leaders typically found on coins and transforms them into pop culture icons, with just a little bit of paint. Da Vinci’s Vitruvian Man on the Italian euro becomes a Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle; a head on a Chinese coin becomes René Magritte’s green apple-covered “The Son of Man.” Levy adds an individual touch to the faces on these mass-produced coins (or what he sees as “sculptures”), ultimately “redefining people’s emotional connection to money.”