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Jul 02
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Lichtenstein Comic Girl Costume by Karin Stone for M·A·C Cosmetics…

Lichtenstein Comic Girl Costume by Karin Stone for M·A·C Cosmetics…

Apr 07
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Jeff Koons for BMW… Though his design for his BMW art car emphasizes streaks of saturated hues, the artist Jeff Koons said his multicolored effort was in part inspired by a desire for a checkered flag. “I think that would be really fantastic to work on a car that could win,” Mr. Koons said Monday evening in a telephone interview. “I do hope that in the future, we can look back and this car wins.”  There may or may not be a victory lap in the future for Mr. Koons’s car, whose design, above, will be officially unveiled on Tuesday morning and which will adorn a BMW M3 GT2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in Paris this June. But his automotive artwork continues a 35-year-old tradition at BMW, which has previously commissioned Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg to turn its cars into canvases, and, at the same time, offers a window into Mr. Koons’s past. (via)

Jeff Koons for BMW…

Though his design for his BMW art car emphasizes streaks of saturated hues, the artist Jeff Koons said his multicolored effort was in part inspired by a desire for a checkered flag. “I think that would be really fantastic to work on a car that could win,” Mr. Koons said Monday evening in a telephone interview. “I do hope that in the future, we can look back and this car wins.” 

There may or may not be a victory lap in the future for Mr. Koons’s car, whose design, above, will be officially unveiled on Tuesday morning and which will adorn a BMW M3 GT2 at the 24 Hours of Le Mans endurance race in Paris this June. But his automotive artwork continues a 35-year-old tradition at BMW, which has previously commissioned Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg to turn its cars into canvases, and, at the same time, offers a window into Mr. Koons’s past. (via)

Mar 15
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Public Art Installation featuring four BMW Art Cars to be unveiled in Manhattan… A two-week free public art installation featuring two distinct sections: a collection of four iconic BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg and a project by South-African born artist Robin Rhode who used a BMW Z4 Roadster mounted with special paint dispensers behind its wheels to create a football-field size painting , a 30’ x 40’ section of which will be shown –will be unveiled on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall. The BMW Art Cars will be accompanied by rare video footage that reveals a young Warhol painting his car, Stella and Rauschenberg discussing their inspirations and influences in creating their respective pieces and various experts discussing the resulting impact of these works. The BMW Art Car project was originally conceived in 1975 by French racecar driver Hervé Poulain. He had the idea of inviting an artist, his friend American artist Alexander Calder, to use his automobile, a BMW racing car, as a canvas. Since then, sixteen of the world’s most respected artists have designed BMW Art Cars… (via)

Public Art Installation featuring four BMW Art Cars to be unveiled in Manhattan…

A two-week free public art installation featuring two distinct sections: a collection of four iconic BMW Art Cars designed by Andy Warhol, Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg and a project by South-African born artist Robin Rhode who used a BMW Z4 Roadster mounted with special paint dispensers behind its wheels to create a football-field size painting , a 30’ x 40’ section of which will be shown –will be unveiled on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at Grand Central Terminal’s Vanderbilt Hall.
The BMW Art Cars will be accompanied by rare video footage that reveals a young Warhol painting his car, Stella and Rauschenberg discussing their inspirations and influences in creating their respective pieces and various experts discussing the resulting impact of these works. The BMW Art Car project was originally conceived in 1975 by French racecar driver Hervé Poulain. He had the idea of inviting an artist, his friend American artist Alexander Calder, to use his automobile, a BMW racing car, as a canvas. Since then, sixteen of the world’s most respected artists have designed BMW Art Cars… (via)