Incognito: The Hidden Self-Portrait

Photographers reveal themselves in shadows, reflections and silhouettes for subliminal self portraits

Experimenting with indirect ways to reveal themselves in the eye of the camera, the artists currently on display in “Incognito: The Hidden Self-Portrait” at NYC’s Yancey Richardson Gallery play with shadows, reflections and silhouettes for a subliminal self portrait like Lisa Kereszi’s above. The images range from the autobiographical to the conceptual, with each artist conveying their own perception of themselves in a different way. …

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 …