MELBOURNE, Australia – In 1998, the Guggenheim Museum mounted the Art of the Motorcycle Exhibition that historian, Jeremy Packer, described as representing “the end of a cycle of….social rejection o
MELBOURNE, Australia – In 1998, the Guggenheim Museum mounted the Art of the Motorcycle Exhibition that historian, Jeremy Packer, described as representing “the end of a cycle of….social rejection of motorcyclists.” Each of the 114 exhibits was chosen “for their historic importance or design excellence.”
“The idea that a motorcycle could be considered as a work of art was as shocking to some as it was liberating to others,” says Catherine Davison, Automotive Specialist at Mossgreen. “It has been a long social evolutionary process for the motorcycle to be recognized as a work of art.”
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