Mini Photo Box

Show your mug to Berlin for a chance to win your favorite car from Mini

For the next two weeks people passing through Berlin’s Kurfürstendamm shopping boulevard will notice a giant campaign from Mini, telling them “It’s Personal.” The BMW offshoot is hitting Germany’s capital with an interactive Photo Box, a booth that captures the faces of Mini fans and blasts them onto a massive video screen along with each participant’s favorite Mini model for a chance to win their …

Patrick Tosani

Pictorial mind games in a contemporary French photographer's first retrospective

At first glance Patrick Tosani‘s photographs seem like textbook examples of monolithic, clean and simple photography. But look a little closer and objects like ice cubes, spoons and high-heeled shoes reveal themselves by a trick of perspective and massive proportions, playing with scale and drawing the viewer into a new dimension. Over 200 such clever twists (many of which have never been shown before) comprise …

Monumenta 2011: Leviathan

Anish Kapoor inflates a massive womb-like sculpture in Paris

The challenge of the annual art exhibit known as Monumenta is primarily a question of volume. Works created for the site-specific show must grapple with the 13,500 square-meter nave of the Grand Palais and the shimmering glass roof (the biggest in Europe), originally built for a late-1800s world’s fair in Paris. Every year the French Ministry for Culture invites a key figure of the artistic …