Kinetic Canvases: BMW Art Cars Share
As Art Basel returns to Hong Kong in 2021, Jon Wall traces the 46-year history of the BMW Art Car and the roster of artists who created these extraordinary automobiles
Almost from the day when Carl Benz dropped a two-stroke petrol engine into the back end of a tricycle, thus laying the foundations of the motor age and a vast global automobile industry, artists have taken inspiration from cars – and car makers, in their turn, have been inspired by art. Perhaps that was inevitable, as few modern inventions had such a profound effect on society and culture in the 20th-century as the motor car. As its use became widespread, the automobile became for time a liberating force, one that enabled its owners to travel far more widely, independently and spontaneously than they’d ever previously imagined possible, and especially so in the United States, where it became an essential theme in popular and even high culture.
Review: The Brett Whiteley Studio
Revisiting an Australian legend.
May 11, 2021
Since 1995, three years after the death of celebrated Australian artist Brett Whiteley in 1992, the Whiteley Studio has been managed by the Art Gallery of NSW and the Whiteley Estate, serving as a posthumous biography for one of Australia’s most nationally recognised artists. In Whiteley’s early career, his synthesis of European as well as Australian art (particularly Russell Drysdale) hinted at a talent that was yet to flourish. Throughout the sixties and seventies, Whiteley’s travels through Europe and America infused his works with the anxieties of the zeitgeist – the Vietnam War being one of the most noticeable. In 1976, he won the Archibald Prize (with his work
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