Jeff Koons To Design the 17th Art BMW (And A Really Good Look At The Other 16)

<script type="text/javascript" src="http://w.sharethis.com/button/sharethis.js#publisher=0d650ffe-1ec7-4395-883b-24e806d21a65&type=website"></script><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIQ1XDJT9fyTkvIgf3tSFYeIreNSBzy6952Xy9f94L1oTMl8SRhB4QPzbnJQQ21m2g9kWMKpSqoQROn-ZBlBkMTK1T2q6gL6zV-1pBzOCF9Bga46GlU-wPoRNQVAoHIJJM9g0FyzE3B8/s1600/KoonsBMWdesignconcept.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457139340495975106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNIQ1XDJT9fyTkvIgf3tSFYeIreNSBzy6952Xy9f94L1oTMl8SRhB4QPzbnJQQ21m2g9kWMKpSqoQROn-ZBlBkMTK1T2q6gL6zV-1pBzOCF9Bga46GlU-wPoRNQVAoHIJJM9g0FyzE3B8/s400/KoonsBMWdesignconcept.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 432px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">above: Jeff Koons' concept art for the car</span><br /><br /><a href="http://artsbeat.blogs.nytimes.com/2010/04/06/start-your-engines-koons-design-for-art-car-is-revealed/?hp">The New York Times announced yesterday</a> that the next BMW art car, a long standing tradition, will be done by contemporary artist <a href="http://www.jeffkoons.com/">Jeff Koons.</a><br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGaVP75o9snO-AWroqdER8G1xZnlVYPyL6g6NpouCkTgbOOrcRSo2NsasctGHMbQ0Iephk9Hmug8xTxoLT90cQCHwdqcAfg_QfUe1S8LPVRJAUt6dTWJkgcFr6ZHylQhbJRilN1IDwXFE/s1600/NC-NY-10569-123.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457135926611401490" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGaVP75o9snO-AWroqdER8G1xZnlVYPyL6g6NpouCkTgbOOrcRSo2NsasctGHMbQ0Iephk9Hmug8xTxoLT90cQCHwdqcAfg_QfUe1S8LPVRJAUt6dTWJkgcFr6ZHylQhbJRilN1IDwXFE/s400/NC-NY-10569-123.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 413px;" /></a><br /><br />Koon’s relationship with BMW started more than two decades ago when he first drove a BMW whilst living in Munich, home to the BMW Group headquarters. It was in 2003 that Koons first expressed his desire to create a BMW Art Car.<br /><br />Frank-Peter Arndt, member of the Board of Management for the BMW AG and responsible for BMW Group’s international cultural formats, said: “We are enormously pleased about Jeff Koons’ eagerly anticipated contribution to the BMW Art Car series, celebrating its 35th anniversary. Art Cars are part of the DNA of BMW’s cultural engagement. As manifested in Koons’ latest sculptural work, what unites us is the belief that nothing is impossible. Our company and Jeff Koons are drawn to permanent innovation and cutting-edge technology.”<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeiAJ0qexFnMOWxfA2tCtC2yKm_6zWtptG3VJDXtjVA_d34UUDWaNavjGJkVtjRooEppzcTkAP9GwBOc_s9chT8WR4tNz8uZIEQs7xFQNgQq_uG5tm7Hkd2GawN_mn0H2fnVGYjmB5Wf8/s1600/Picture+21.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457137524930842978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeiAJ0qexFnMOWxfA2tCtC2yKm_6zWtptG3VJDXtjVA_d34UUDWaNavjGJkVtjRooEppzcTkAP9GwBOc_s9chT8WR4tNz8uZIEQs7xFQNgQq_uG5tm7Hkd2GawN_mn0H2fnVGYjmB5Wf8/s400/Picture+21.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 497px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-size:85%;"><span style="font-style: italic;">above: Jeff Koons (right)with celebrated architect Richard Meier (left) at the party celebrating the announcement that Jeff Koons will create the 17th BMW Art Car at Koons‘ Manhattan studio, Tuesday, February 2, 2010.</span></span><br /><br />It's fairly well known that BMW has commissioned 16 Art Cars over the last four decades. The cars have toured museums around the world, including the Louvre in Paris, the Royal Academy in London, the Whitney Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Palazzo Grassi in Venice, the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney and at the Guggenheim museums in New York and Bilbao.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRhrHOnmMKAdiStBZW0rWBkdPVYHBOEb_xo3KrkSYyYz7wQbbWIbyCWPBUZgq2ua7eputaPv5JKFkrzCRw7GF0RiLc_2IAiOpnci-QFj2Hb5Zdzq5c03SIyYDbqtT4J1rFuCofn4QtWlt/s1600-h/_BMW-Art-Collection-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314320915551680194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisRhrHOnmMKAdiStBZW0rWBkdPVYHBOEb_xo3KrkSYyYz7wQbbWIbyCWPBUZgq2ua7eputaPv5JKFkrzCRw7GF0RiLc_2IAiOpnci-QFj2Hb5Zdzq5c03SIyYDbqtT4J1rFuCofn4QtWlt/s400/_BMW-Art-Collection-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 396px;" /></a><br /><br />Four of them, by the artists Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Frank Stella and Robert Rauschenberg, appeared at Grand Central Terminal in New York for two weeks in March of 2009. Those pieces (shown below) are part of a collection of 16 cars, from a 635CSi to an M1, that BMW has turned over to artists to re-imagine since 1975.<br /><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uOuAMD_Dug0cYn6vhRQpxRJB33lN_OoYKdtNgAKZRQduyGffta5Uakp_GGdnxXhGggPC4jMLE9WEXkrLikPPxFKj6Nnh7UhJxJxvsxeUauRVQcLqLwUziJgQZUbfZAir364Q0zVKF2hp/s1600-h/600-artcar-span.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314321098391264098" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh3uOuAMD_Dug0cYn6vhRQpxRJB33lN_OoYKdtNgAKZRQduyGffta5Uakp_GGdnxXhGggPC4jMLE9WEXkrLikPPxFKj6Nnh7UhJxJxvsxeUauRVQcLqLwUziJgQZUbfZAir364Q0zVKF2hp/s400/600-artcar-span.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 266px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Andy Warhol</span>, BMW M1 Group 4 Race Version, 1979:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpo3Nmr4osB6hIqXurGsGbfm9OVZsbidcsqen15A5NMv0MbA-QW4GV_st4elQywHAq73AYNophxaspFF1iqooy4EiW2lToUbZLrXXOzjjfse4fyOMmmfreiycLMp3BT2jWXgK94Uu_-nyN/s1600-h/1979-Bmw-M1-Art-Car-by-Andy-Warhol-3-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314323153043192594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpo3Nmr4osB6hIqXurGsGbfm9OVZsbidcsqen15A5NMv0MbA-QW4GV_st4elQywHAq73AYNophxaspFF1iqooy4EiW2lToUbZLrXXOzjjfse4fyOMmmfreiycLMp3BT2jWXgK94Uu_-nyN/s400/1979-Bmw-M1-Art-Car-by-Andy-Warhol-3-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 525px; height: 328px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZeJc307vbMkV8Q448M4TpicCqHCK2tePxizLvqvuKGW1yUtpzdzS6zMyiUy0LIlEXaFUxKfx3soK-Zy79cii8leCMM7fmG07QxbpHhbIx8A-dRzG_cM_MxMI6t8Bwl7vF3ysw5ujDtna/s1600-h/warholptg.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314323019317696962" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg7ZeJc307vbMkV8Q448M4TpicCqHCK2tePxizLvqvuKGW1yUtpzdzS6zMyiUy0LIlEXaFUxKfx3soK-Zy79cii8leCMM7fmG07QxbpHhbIx8A-dRzG_cM_MxMI6t8Bwl7vF3ysw5ujDtna/s400/warholptg.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 527px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Roy Lichtenstein</span>, BMW 320i Group 5 Race Version, 1977:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtd2vtuaZtbLlW1BTF1s6e1t_45D_-L6RqFEuZWDBrW6YpLpk9Un5EXMdMoaYH714O6jVmfmrqTmzp7J6G_B0ZfZ2W1oapHNBU_mNGdxS4kyJC_JDl9rz3mS8x3Q4t-_2NMEkZXrd0GDTH/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1977-320i-Lichtenstein-3-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314323645706588466" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgtd2vtuaZtbLlW1BTF1s6e1t_45D_-L6RqFEuZWDBrW6YpLpk9Un5EXMdMoaYH714O6jVmfmrqTmzp7J6G_B0ZfZ2W1oapHNBU_mNGdxS4kyJC_JDl9rz3mS8x3Q4t-_2NMEkZXrd0GDTH/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1977-320i-Lichtenstein-3-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 531px; height: 257px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtsRNIKQ6loaRzGI9msBERh3tWzQbcwg1O3Xc4V_QGIaHJs4g2WW18D4Ir2iktLsLUXNkvaZsFktFQU5e1lTxm0-nf4F1CWRoiVYRRismhvR-70AW0qVhvGyAUeWmGpxUIZVlihCCK3LU/s1600-h/Roy-Lichtenstein-1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314323720719751666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjwtsRNIKQ6loaRzGI9msBERh3tWzQbcwg1O3Xc4V_QGIaHJs4g2WW18D4Ir2iktLsLUXNkvaZsFktFQU5e1lTxm0-nf4F1CWRoiVYRRismhvR-70AW0qVhvGyAUeWmGpxUIZVlihCCK3LU/s400/Roy-Lichtenstein-1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 526px; height: 387px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Frank Stella</span>, BMW 3.0 CSL, 1976:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vmQNB2fXMMUahXNS1zGjfymGUK4SD-p18rqhPIX8UWkKvuehkBAD-NtHxk8PUmQb2jo5BOZC59NUVIxxGg8XHRGl5K84Pos_5vPZFjqYAFjDEllYxu1vC90rJamYpY1rGyhqXv3vmdVO/s1600-h/stellabmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314326454344848194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg3vmQNB2fXMMUahXNS1zGjfymGUK4SD-p18rqhPIX8UWkKvuehkBAD-NtHxk8PUmQb2jo5BOZC59NUVIxxGg8XHRGl5K84Pos_5vPZFjqYAFjDEllYxu1vC90rJamYpY1rGyhqXv3vmdVO/s400/stellabmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 365px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDtcUY_Zr01g0GJudfJ7uIZvhLUjjlXXG5Bfhm1pt6LRZTUs_nmIrmDXjGTzinYKJgl0BHonzOAkGfb9Rfk_Kpha-1X__y0WiUKySSmnjIv_ale7myvF7h_rP4aNjIv2pAqHt4s_ILEZQ8/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1976-3.0-CSL-by-F-Stella-2-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314326210245473394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDtcUY_Zr01g0GJudfJ7uIZvhLUjjlXXG5Bfhm1pt6LRZTUs_nmIrmDXjGTzinYKJgl0BHonzOAkGfb9Rfk_Kpha-1X__y0WiUKySSmnjIv_ale7myvF7h_rP4aNjIv2pAqHt4s_ILEZQ8/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1976-3.0-CSL-by-F-Stella-2-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 389px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHcAhlubfEX8j7VDsjJk1vzckWraI89AR_r9OUvkXB9140k1qnJxwEM3W1lb3Eg_YQo2CMRTZ039K0VNt6uKCblfjXq24zDAWlacKYuSbqb1DU9uA9Wuze1KGnljyvYWHac4gE-xA_BNx/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1976-3.0-CSL-by-F-Stella-3-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327098634506386" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgeHcAhlubfEX8j7VDsjJk1vzckWraI89AR_r9OUvkXB9140k1qnJxwEM3W1lb3Eg_YQo2CMRTZ039K0VNt6uKCblfjXq24zDAWlacKYuSbqb1DU9uA9Wuze1KGnljyvYWHac4gE-xA_BNx/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1976-3.0-CSL-by-F-Stella-3-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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width: 531px; height: 718px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Robert Rauschenberg</span>, BMW 635 CSi, 1986:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOkUpYQNokM5gmKvl1rzzJyVtsocs_XS1JUXNGmih0wOjgyjJUsDxJAPnVLslCDS1T1MR95nhCQonQn40aKBg-lYvzSrpj0083RpQfmS23bPEJ2tKCr-lUz1_gRlKd58ANuIITaGdmz7bl/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1986-635-CSi-Rauschenberg-2-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327872172476594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiOkUpYQNokM5gmKvl1rzzJyVtsocs_XS1JUXNGmih0wOjgyjJUsDxJAPnVLslCDS1T1MR95nhCQonQn40aKBg-lYvzSrpj0083RpQfmS23bPEJ2tKCr-lUz1_gRlKd58ANuIITaGdmz7bl/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1986-635-CSi-Rauschenberg-2-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 391px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNUhAVcMU0w2XC5lctl_boCL_QbUFdSnCNk0ZgMf5VyhnjU51qwoTYBU-GxEp5Faa1C2pvErhdctmD685kMGgO5XQwgkUNvmS1PsIbeHbMfFis2-8B6uyx1CgbfW7JqLqZkJNudLSfVDt/s1600-h/rauschbmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327802175978802" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhGNUhAVcMU0w2XC5lctl_boCL_QbUFdSnCNk0ZgMf5VyhnjU51qwoTYBU-GxEp5Faa1C2pvErhdctmD685kMGgO5XQwgkUNvmS1PsIbeHbMfFis2-8B6uyx1CgbfW7JqLqZkJNudLSfVDt/s400/rauschbmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 387px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IIpd6Pdzwmf4AmNL-6h36FAk_EYE9ljJeGRmpIN3AgEYvJthquLnIRvIJXosVe3rKiO8eRpHGj2SuIHUWyZ0yUShUilgav8qgQ2LsYuzzZ-g9JRkxOshRSIieY1hfXtH2Nbl_YH3r3vl/s1600-h/_Bmw-Art-Car-1986-635-CSi-Rauschenberg-1-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327670717895058" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5IIpd6Pdzwmf4AmNL-6h36FAk_EYE9ljJeGRmpIN3AgEYvJthquLnIRvIJXosVe3rKiO8eRpHGj2SuIHUWyZ0yUShUilgav8qgQ2LsYuzzZ-g9JRkxOshRSIieY1hfXtH2Nbl_YH3r3vl/s400/_Bmw-Art-Car-1986-635-CSi-Rauschenberg-1-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 388px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0l2VVCX4OS1NJoaaaNZH_GXBVo4U9SCfjfOByf-uwWkShXlSuSP4NkxBNt2DePRa-vTuKX2hvuuVCLYnnm7CUi-jdEBwzCtKWf5kMZcxmTZ26V0P-SfSQapt0JnO9u94DHCqEsJhQQIks/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1986-635-CSi-Rauschenberg-3-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314327567040411346" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj0l2VVCX4OS1NJoaaaNZH_GXBVo4U9SCfjfOByf-uwWkShXlSuSP4NkxBNt2DePRa-vTuKX2hvuuVCLYnnm7CUi-jdEBwzCtKWf5kMZcxmTZ26V0P-SfSQapt0JnO9u94DHCqEsJhQQIks/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1986-635-CSi-Rauschenberg-3-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 525px; height: 385px;" /></a><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Here are the other 12.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Alexander Calder</span>, 3.0CSL, 1975. One of Calder’s last works, his BMW Art Car competed in the 1975 24 Hours of Le Mans:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5YJbSUKnz6tMWnAa56JBq4YGmEAZ2zV_taQLe1yUP2gQILH1SoG0BiwQPIWIB_uHbdNKP0BMUbD7SwrvoJt6EEqwVG1lKWvxkHJqS9virj5fpE75CLUmhIE4eO8fk_5bYNPPEh8YmkPw/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1975-3.0-CSL-by-A-Calder-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314321727032951538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhv5YJbSUKnz6tMWnAa56JBq4YGmEAZ2zV_taQLe1yUP2gQILH1SoG0BiwQPIWIB_uHbdNKP0BMUbD7SwrvoJt6EEqwVG1lKWvxkHJqS9virj5fpE75CLUmhIE4eO8fk_5bYNPPEh8YmkPw/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1975-3.0-CSL-by-A-Calder-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 390px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7kC0__fIzh9a6cHMx0sDSsxxI37yDbJdgM4DGMC8UhD22lecXzF2PSl-dDJMGLAwsvJr2F2B5M0KCm2zGPDqnyVizQwjMTCZ-1LDsdYBraNelmMMcqewTeBK-LZS2D79dzgIdYIn-NSW/s1600-h/calder2.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314321618512076322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhJ7kC0__fIzh9a6cHMx0sDSsxxI37yDbJdgM4DGMC8UhD22lecXzF2PSl-dDJMGLAwsvJr2F2B5M0KCm2zGPDqnyVizQwjMTCZ-1LDsdYBraNelmMMcqewTeBK-LZS2D79dzgIdYIn-NSW/s400/calder2.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 311px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuukpUCEC7dgjxq9Gbh5hmqTM4biQ2Ad42g0s6C8pQq4MId636i0I7CvBdxAy1YfD7YeJ5rqtz2_NGjeUJAlD4W1wOZzTrD8iGCP09LoAHuvfCE3f8JSqdc6tIqzG5eotlJvCPMXUTYVU-/s1600-h/calderbmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314321557793856226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiuukpUCEC7dgjxq9Gbh5hmqTM4biQ2Ad42g0s6C8pQq4MId636i0I7CvBdxAy1YfD7YeJ5rqtz2_NGjeUJAlD4W1wOZzTrD8iGCP09LoAHuvfCE3f8JSqdc6tIqzG5eotlJvCPMXUTYVU-/s400/calderbmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 317px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ernest Fuchs</span>, 635CSi, 1982. He said his piece “represents a hare racing across a motorway at night and leaping over a burning car.”:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCCw5IAo14y4Mt_d-EmPczGjfdnnKQ7gCtJZTUdlnC25eu4kgPrSrwgpbpMyWyBZxy8caMnAxnLhD47e1NrbQDquhI131RAiyP2_vlK0JxbfF4VMnohz2TXAM4IK8xqGKxduaybRFo15i/s1600-h/Bmw-Art-Car-1982-635-CSi-Fuchs-2-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314329071734997970" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEilCCw5IAo14y4Mt_d-EmPczGjfdnnKQ7gCtJZTUdlnC25eu4kgPrSrwgpbpMyWyBZxy8caMnAxnLhD47e1NrbQDquhI131RAiyP2_vlK0JxbfF4VMnohz2TXAM4IK8xqGKxduaybRFo15i/s400/Bmw-Art-Car-1982-635-CSi-Fuchs-2-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 392px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpqAXCbZm-ZShzxox_bHlb91gi7AgmO3EKq-Djkx0blJ0jJn3yJ5I011TenkhFHAFyPFfnxdMn-9IYZ8cXI7HmebTNdxv5G66mQsqc5OuIlCelAHoTOZRt8Q1CugFxTFH90g24_mnpWuSJ/s1600-h/fuchsbmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314328822104025778" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjpqAXCbZm-ZShzxox_bHlb91gi7AgmO3EKq-Djkx0blJ0jJn3yJ5I011TenkhFHAFyPFfnxdMn-9IYZ8cXI7HmebTNdxv5G66mQsqc5OuIlCelAHoTOZRt8Q1CugFxTFH90g24_mnpWuSJ/s400/fuchsbmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 776px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFJCMtNSZtiGvj0KrADhyma8VZihGoJ2Z_J-W7cTUlirmx_Hux0draVGdfSv_ExKI39if5EdQgyX13b-wWfUGc0uMO4H8u_lAlnmJGBjDQvnCkGXUC9MEslbp4CAKmahnDxi7V0ljC0D73/s1600-h/_Bmw-Art-Car-1982-635-CSi-Fuchs-1-lg.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314328740795124594" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhFJCMtNSZtiGvj0KrADhyma8VZihGoJ2Z_J-W7cTUlirmx_Hux0draVGdfSv_ExKI39if5EdQgyX13b-wWfUGc0uMO4H8u_lAlnmJGBjDQvnCkGXUC9MEslbp4CAKmahnDxi7V0ljC0D73/s400/_Bmw-Art-Car-1982-635-CSi-Fuchs-1-lg.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 390px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Ken Done</span>, M3 Group A racing model, 1989. Along with Michael Jagamara Nelson, Mr. Done was one of two Australian artists commissioned by BMW in 1989. He painted parrots and parrot fish on his car:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlxrCAAWJMwRAhwWjn31co9iDDKDyleY1NDU-dsjmh4BK-zZ-oiaph1tBSeupNMrgvxQzl046lsPz08Mpis9CVmgptWwmSONB5XZw1WmCt2_pHRS9n-JfpJWBwklYs0qJZAWdrzZTSJUk/s1600-h/kendone.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314329815683418674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgVlxrCAAWJMwRAhwWjn31co9iDDKDyleY1NDU-dsjmh4BK-zZ-oiaph1tBSeupNMrgvxQzl046lsPz08Mpis9CVmgptWwmSONB5XZw1WmCt2_pHRS9n-JfpJWBwklYs0qJZAWdrzZTSJUk/s400/kendone.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 318px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3gO1a_MyiKib0lqHABCFQdIU6WArrcRnlRx9InIPZIssiTpPBr-VGqPinOnJ0vExXOJGx94wMmULO9RBG9rMxNxjhcL3qDA1gNtBVeJEEy4iIjNDFSWcvhV7JvAbnWhsfDwd0hp8qx3w/s1600-h/1989_bmw_m3_raceversion_art_car_by_ken_done_1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314329675144278434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEii3gO1a_MyiKib0lqHABCFQdIU6WArrcRnlRx9InIPZIssiTpPBr-VGqPinOnJ0vExXOJGx94wMmULO9RBG9rMxNxjhcL3qDA1gNtBVeJEEy4iIjNDFSWcvhV7JvAbnWhsfDwd0hp8qx3w/s400/1989_bmw_m3_raceversion_art_car_by_ken_done_1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 275px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-Quy71es-UihkNp99jPcJ3Ts4wqn7Oi2-q0NrYI8kpnD2AP3bWPRDrrhY-PE9jdGhmtMOacwK__5Shd3j06w0hcfPdLoxS-ZdG-j3mzeiMUnopzcE4Q0NAS0wdxM8f5dSESUt84GUgyq/s1600-h/268-876.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314329898602766130" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgy-Quy71es-UihkNp99jPcJ3Ts4wqn7Oi2-q0NrYI8kpnD2AP3bWPRDrrhY-PE9jdGhmtMOacwK__5Shd3j06w0hcfPdLoxS-ZdG-j3mzeiMUnopzcE4Q0NAS0wdxM8f5dSESUt84GUgyq/s400/268-876.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 391px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Michael Jagamara Nelson</span>, M3 Group A racing model, 1989. Using a style derived from traditional Aboriginal painting, Mr. Nelson’s work portrays a landscape as seen from the sky:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JF1JmN61f_stSWyHylidNNzYEkIIE_N7ElTECuH9hMLhrwVIEtHPLwnFG8UC28pqHgGJJKQr0IuaEqie8Pp0XtFop4lj7fLW2DMlWHyEJMGtkbXt-LSimxZNpqLFffZJN38owu5J3Led/s1600-h/p0013758.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314333917639599442" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg6JF1JmN61f_stSWyHylidNNzYEkIIE_N7ElTECuH9hMLhrwVIEtHPLwnFG8UC28pqHgGJJKQr0IuaEqie8Pp0XtFop4lj7fLW2DMlWHyEJMGtkbXt-LSimxZNpqLFffZJN38owu5J3Led/s400/p0013758.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 480px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8IqbOy3wS8Sj4T_M1seZk1j7F8ZoBjip21GJGjnmFUaOrxn_yF6z3ro10Mjl_sa77NhCLvbiDRE71cmjvc9qXZV-i2lRsIfu67zVAV97Zcf_BPzxkd-L-tFaPJL-OYFNPH30e-UDtVu-f/s1600-h/min_artcar-Nelson.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314334052464122978" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh8IqbOy3wS8Sj4T_M1seZk1j7F8ZoBjip21GJGjnmFUaOrxn_yF6z3ro10Mjl_sa77NhCLvbiDRE71cmjvc9qXZV-i2lRsIfu67zVAV97Zcf_BPzxkd-L-tFaPJL-OYFNPH30e-UDtVu-f/s400/min_artcar-Nelson.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 287px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqj7Lh27jjXtWn388zwKpo4O-FlgOjBc99-6PON1yP1ToudZJVyAoUxvRmoafl8cZUQ2QD5zq9Z4nAgG4j9Fe4uFw7LAHMGTtN_6LVw9U2_DVg5UMBoFWFnNupHJ1pjOvZJXzW9caow6w7/s1600-h/jagamarabmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314333835632174354" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhqj7Lh27jjXtWn388zwKpo4O-FlgOjBc99-6PON1yP1ToudZJVyAoUxvRmoafl8cZUQ2QD5zq9Z4nAgG4j9Fe4uFw7LAHMGTtN_6LVw9U2_DVg5UMBoFWFnNupHJ1pjOvZJXzW9caow6w7/s400/jagamarabmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 361px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Matazo Kayama</span>, 535i, 1990. Mr. Kayama used Japanese techniques of foil impression and metal cutting over an airbrushed surface:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsXASmC60xbmQnKzV4150oQXLSeAQqKd2ZarZ2J_0AX8xg2W6KBfdWH_qGLosX3VHEFutyP9xYA0p3ptZD5B3IZwjwo6I02Wh3g0ojnurVn4OC97eK7ZUcDB_M-HvXBK3_hcsKbyZS7rJH/s1600-h/p0013756.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314334889067879282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjsXASmC60xbmQnKzV4150oQXLSeAQqKd2ZarZ2J_0AX8xg2W6KBfdWH_qGLosX3VHEFutyP9xYA0p3ptZD5B3IZwjwo6I02Wh3g0ojnurVn4OC97eK7ZUcDB_M-HvXBK3_hcsKbyZS7rJH/s400/p0013756.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 355px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11BF3bY0EFUvkj82p7g1rckgh5bp6etFr3lbvLY5wQpOfUO_d-ElLujiRR6N0WK8QEsMyvjoL-Siw-bRW-oeVmtr_ZUBSR06O4i3R4GHxNBQ9GqexM-DEZoGKKLJ1c8U-Q6dg0Hz_IDfc/s1600-h/p0013757.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314334805202181394" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi11BF3bY0EFUvkj82p7g1rckgh5bp6etFr3lbvLY5wQpOfUO_d-ElLujiRR6N0WK8QEsMyvjoL-Siw-bRW-oeVmtr_ZUBSR06O4i3R4GHxNBQ9GqexM-DEZoGKKLJ1c8U-Q6dg0Hz_IDfc/s400/p0013757.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 305px;" /></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPkM1uVilyuEdePqWGDCrXfWxkBGMi17SMF7wWy2NUEkxsTtNm3pzOLSEo2ex7siM-a44piYrpJnzysxRyQ72wRWR7eNiPUiuoloVv085NYXG_LFEn4IOY5FF75o3IsfeT4hYoNxtnG64/s1600-h/kayamabmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314334707411028898" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgSPkM1uVilyuEdePqWGDCrXfWxkBGMi17SMF7wWy2NUEkxsTtNm3pzOLSEo2ex7siM-a44piYrpJnzysxRyQ72wRWR7eNiPUiuoloVv085NYXG_LFEn4IOY5FF75o3IsfeT4hYoNxtnG64/s400/kayamabmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 783px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Cesar Manrique</span>, 730i, 1990. The Spanish artist and architect said he wanted his car “to appear as if it were gliding through space without encountering any form of resistance.”:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbd2wnLpH_Yb0tFvGKzAPdaDvAKzNc_2LbL1_2ksN9Li-3RIRsk9pyTAFs8bHBEGtcHJzmsFL_jnk4A3FHtXI74wdLFzEw7ppPFtU7stb3asd-JlIhVhIf52fc2Ua8OftGYz2X9PixGWNb/s1600-h/p0013754.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314335768173702178" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbd2wnLpH_Yb0tFvGKzAPdaDvAKzNc_2LbL1_2ksN9Li-3RIRsk9pyTAFs8bHBEGtcHJzmsFL_jnk4A3FHtXI74wdLFzEw7ppPFtU7stb3asd-JlIhVhIf52fc2Ua8OftGYz2X9PixGWNb/s400/p0013754.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 313px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6KrMy13AcqHj-9-e8TAvb-F2J4Um-M3sZrxefVRmJ8v2vIcDt_YqxJKFkNbn3otgT-GvRHmWSw5gG0A0wqOQ-_zf725HuDn__XJqrLgWP0SHpdlyTJ-lHsc_PQD5e3nGfGnthbXrLsCnD/s1600-h/p0013755.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314335697001420434" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6KrMy13AcqHj-9-e8TAvb-F2J4Um-M3sZrxefVRmJ8v2vIcDt_YqxJKFkNbn3otgT-GvRHmWSw5gG0A0wqOQ-_zf725HuDn__XJqrLgWP0SHpdlyTJ-lHsc_PQD5e3nGfGnthbXrLsCnD/s400/p0013755.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 293px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQplm5_OrfmvPx06jHWMF_3qZXpbYACzAz8CHvVzj0HVGDn82POuAE4xo1j7Z2m_CVgyVZ6u7P97yBEymEYHGqNrtjJGZ8C3DIbRKn2thaHcrzkDCQ9kIDGdHchHDufmR9VjmDtlRh8T2V/s1600-h/manriquebmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314335201701000786" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhQplm5_OrfmvPx06jHWMF_3qZXpbYACzAz8CHvVzj0HVGDn82POuAE4xo1j7Z2m_CVgyVZ6u7P97yBEymEYHGqNrtjJGZ8C3DIbRKn2thaHcrzkDCQ9kIDGdHchHDufmR9VjmDtlRh8T2V/s400/manriquebmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 343px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Esther Mahlangu</span>, 525i, 1991. She painted her car in the traditional form of the Ndebele tribe of South Africa:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlbVoocY7Qj4p7cUo3tF5NW7B8FLaSMrzFs9BX0tvEVDLQ4oVFVATf6L8ZcWty1OeV-bIG9_9f-O1Gf0GGlcInNvBKaz3NQXn7Vaeku3FeEVZTplZ7Ho9opZeFCET-v-FC_xvHFa0GcNs/s1600-h/p0013751.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314336151587855474" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjAlbVoocY7Qj4p7cUo3tF5NW7B8FLaSMrzFs9BX0tvEVDLQ4oVFVATf6L8ZcWty1OeV-bIG9_9f-O1Gf0GGlcInNvBKaz3NQXn7Vaeku3FeEVZTplZ7Ho9opZeFCET-v-FC_xvHFa0GcNs/s400/p0013751.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 536px; height: 284px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7jIFPXKjdwvBvAw2wte8pbf_38_WBj2tERmEqv0tiJyRYnZ7RbmIz9-lV-nYa6q16ULsB9oHie0B3REriqLBwRw3ZFxDMbqgVxQELmvoVRcGiR6nBoPuOi15UQH-mOECcer6HIb7sRo4/s1600-h/p0013750.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314336238338637698" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjm7jIFPXKjdwvBvAw2wte8pbf_38_WBj2tERmEqv0tiJyRYnZ7RbmIz9-lV-nYa6q16ULsB9oHie0B3REriqLBwRw3ZFxDMbqgVxQELmvoVRcGiR6nBoPuOi15UQH-mOECcer6HIb7sRo4/s400/p0013750.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 410px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbtRPLkqpnoboLXT7xj43A5v_bU1HjwQ3BmITeJRZiw9-YzoFOaCdUWHE0EkWFVNyMw0wZK1yZyjKg4UZsKInCTSJrAttlibao4oFc3ya9YZErUDFeAZu9e_vzmtLH3N3caKL2cwMlRpE/s1600-h/mahlangubmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314336011118962194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMbtRPLkqpnoboLXT7xj43A5v_bU1HjwQ3BmITeJRZiw9-YzoFOaCdUWHE0EkWFVNyMw0wZK1yZyjKg4UZsKInCTSJrAttlibao4oFc3ya9YZErUDFeAZu9e_vzmtLH3N3caKL2cwMlRpE/s400/mahlangubmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 305px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">A. R. Penck</span>, Z1, 1991. The German artist covered his car with pictographic images and symbols in a design that evokes primitive cave paintings:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIblfg856YO8Vp49XYvfftvxSWXRfPwBXuJJEZVWkR9rmI1luMV_E5ZHNeJSt0HH6F0q_6KPWnK7SPWIs-a2OgcPJZzsAE942nJR7-zgzJB8LOilb0h3tz-s1MDY_EU5i3qHdoZEU2_-w/s1600/Picture+20.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5457136590502201426" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiIblfg856YO8Vp49XYvfftvxSWXRfPwBXuJJEZVWkR9rmI1luMV_E5ZHNeJSt0HH6F0q_6KPWnK7SPWIs-a2OgcPJZzsAE942nJR7-zgzJB8LOilb0h3tz-s1MDY_EU5i3qHdoZEU2_-w/s400/Picture+20.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 363px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMPsm8ULgVK1RHLj1jvmcfavfaIlRm1K0rSwaoyBqQ54bpswc6_geQkBVnWlSJHn99FTERRm1Kp3yFEWgOi4_K1PnYVAm-YIXzgfmTypwCnsvHbv9tcO2gj9C9-e-xsloxpEOf3ztiWso/s1600-h/arpenck-z1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314337399401903458" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgUMPsm8ULgVK1RHLj1jvmcfavfaIlRm1K0rSwaoyBqQ54bpswc6_geQkBVnWlSJHn99FTERRm1Kp3yFEWgOi4_K1PnYVAm-YIXzgfmTypwCnsvHbv9tcO2gj9C9-e-xsloxpEOf3ztiWso/s400/arpenck-z1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 316px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbzIYoCdBWNg0mzJmJIH1gBsQ8ztPOVtQ1p_JkySQpV1Ftip5O4AceQqEKjWjop2V2yuL8fL6Eg3WmJg_aCMxb1zQiclDDuf5V5AqyaTaTbcGLNefpRl_eoYMbudfA5fzkuEqAmMrsw2O/s1600-h/ARPenckbmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314336505748030514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhcbzIYoCdBWNg0mzJmJIH1gBsQ8ztPOVtQ1p_JkySQpV1Ftip5O4AceQqEKjWjop2V2yuL8fL6Eg3WmJg_aCMxb1zQiclDDuf5V5AqyaTaTbcGLNefpRl_eoYMbudfA5fzkuEqAmMrsw2O/s400/ARPenckbmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 336px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Sandro Chia</span>, M3 GTR, 1992. “Look at anything hard enough and it turns into a face,” said this Italian painter and sculptor of his Art Car. “And a face is a focal point of life and of the world.”:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_yD1xAeiAnUZyFxipdbwLQVyw-mJSp3PjhKTbnEmsE0N9h81gopwCNvsxpCNLdDIZwWy-1r3hdFxRoQm492qjCVmiazdI8ydySWo8qltEmFZ7rUB-KvZoz_gfXgzT05OQAM-Fryoof4l/s1600-h/chiabmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314337640083839378" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjo_yD1xAeiAnUZyFxipdbwLQVyw-mJSp3PjhKTbnEmsE0N9h81gopwCNvsxpCNLdDIZwWy-1r3hdFxRoQm492qjCVmiazdI8ydySWo8qltEmFZ7rUB-KvZoz_gfXgzT05OQAM-Fryoof4l/s400/chiabmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 316px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAco1EQoQjiJKwXSMEAHMeyV1mzz_MREPNvr0H_kaNMcd0SjjjGNbmD3ZmptgH_LWdUR2wqC2grWgVOYsiLWPw7bjVqVN2R1uzeuRr5RIjauymKLzqntdfUrCv2Wa5zsPo6YzSJUMjHuA/s1600-h/p0013747.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314337908834345234" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhkAco1EQoQjiJKwXSMEAHMeyV1mzz_MREPNvr0H_kaNMcd0SjjjGNbmD3ZmptgH_LWdUR2wqC2grWgVOYsiLWPw7bjVqVN2R1uzeuRr5RIjauymKLzqntdfUrCv2Wa5zsPo6YzSJUMjHuA/s400/p0013747.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 533px; height: 660px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkRJU2Wzjg-R-sURmCAKPV0cRbCoR3Gr5o31r18V0p7y3IqxpFiryON97U0rYbFyiWopR2UaT5wug-MpbTdlbY8JnfBi3m3PmCUdCnoHDBkrsHGrTr9pHe4KCZOej7Wp_xJnk_oPrI-Xi/s1600-h/p0013748.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314337833944822210" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhOkRJU2Wzjg-R-sURmCAKPV0cRbCoR3Gr5o31r18V0p7y3IqxpFiryON97U0rYbFyiWopR2UaT5wug-MpbTdlbY8JnfBi3m3PmCUdCnoHDBkrsHGrTr9pHe4KCZOej7Wp_xJnk_oPrI-Xi/s400/p0013748.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 532px; height: 284px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXtCUn9ruwzy_pEc2NjhX_J9WfLkoG1GKLDUTHmFTtQsUiHHqVjyfTJtoW_h9qac_X3OhiI5mVS4bP9e159OSVOuj3gJy5FPGj4X1Kglri0RFlzl0O5CG94CDDG3z-_aQok7FwLWs0WUu/s1600-h/p0013749.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314337754700887362" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhMXtCUn9ruwzy_pEc2NjhX_J9WfLkoG1GKLDUTHmFTtQsUiHHqVjyfTJtoW_h9qac_X3OhiI5mVS4bP9e159OSVOuj3gJy5FPGj4X1Kglri0RFlzl0O5CG94CDDG3z-_aQok7FwLWs0WUu/s400/p0013749.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 335px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">David Hockney</span>, 850CSi, 1995. His design offers an “inside” view of the car, including renderings of the intake manifolds painted on the hood:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDn6GIG8tToZ8Nh_YL0seNiK785QzDfguw1SfNl1V97lCjdbu8y8nSjKdDyzMfAHc7OswsCdss3Nl6iyGkv7bGeIKHymeEmMwTstar4ujlkO-SN0konB1jAmnKqbpT96I8ngoO_V4fMGty/s1600-h/hockney1.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314338822045658882" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjDn6GIG8tToZ8Nh_YL0seNiK785QzDfguw1SfNl1V97lCjdbu8y8nSjKdDyzMfAHc7OswsCdss3Nl6iyGkv7bGeIKHymeEmMwTstar4ujlkO-SN0konB1jAmnKqbpT96I8ngoO_V4fMGty/s400/hockney1.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 536px; height: 292px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuZWZy5tzdzrZlHskYl9EuWrTmtQaoP9J9JCumsfyO_LOjP_YkuRwfgE_yeueDnOd9wtAo2cY_Azg21MV8MEno9svefF1aMzRBZfJ7mhFyqWhL4GwLN9mhRndyHLQLnrrvF-yXfEQvTgl/s1600-h/hockneybmw.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314338511131647538" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhPuZWZy5tzdzrZlHskYl9EuWrTmtQaoP9J9JCumsfyO_LOjP_YkuRwfgE_yeueDnOd9wtAo2cY_Azg21MV8MEno9svefF1aMzRBZfJ7mhFyqWhL4GwLN9mhRndyHLQLnrrvF-yXfEQvTgl/s400/hockneybmw.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 536px; height: 282px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCsXiGeteLoQp2TLwgJlS-2gaoDFoBDIEDAb8QtS5n6RlqAaRcHXOHllWzMCTpRQzTBkIsM4gvPE9Q5pBCaKgxKsv2arRyYB9PaHbPxPRWZTYrKTZF8ddryGplq1mot0cU4ssOAPopjAby/s1600-h/david-hockney-19952.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314338317656828514" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgCsXiGeteLoQp2TLwgJlS-2gaoDFoBDIEDAb8QtS5n6RlqAaRcHXOHllWzMCTpRQzTBkIsM4gvPE9Q5pBCaKgxKsv2arRyYB9PaHbPxPRWZTYrKTZF8ddryGplq1mot0cU4ssOAPopjAby/s400/david-hockney-19952.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 529px; height: 317px;" /></a><br /><span style="font-weight: bold;">Jenny Holzer</span>, V12 LMR, 1999. Her Le Mans Roadster includes aphorisms like “The Unattainable Is Invariably Attractive.”:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisVl1yJLTONI6YeumVAlCgcm2FmJyeC7aztbvpKEEGGqiRWXvVKOwuYSRW6QG7YEj6qnyZxIx-W6Wo4HX9QvsZpZMIiPzww7jrywAFCcs9y-Gq_4SeQeTeMlmC2ziQBQ5C5bjlcw5s6jYK/s1600-h/Picture+36.png" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314339761571910370" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisVl1yJLTONI6YeumVAlCgcm2FmJyeC7aztbvpKEEGGqiRWXvVKOwuYSRW6QG7YEj6qnyZxIx-W6Wo4HX9QvsZpZMIiPzww7jrywAFCcs9y-Gq_4SeQeTeMlmC2ziQBQ5C5bjlcw5s6jYK/s400/Picture+36.png" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 428px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk__IGGyXrTu7B-3JVg_cUhoB2u1_RalxU4b3wGzr4FKFetHFXu4B2H_WPiJwjMLPW1ejZlNRrBMg8nB3fKKalCNFYU2qeGREHy-_17ajz9rNap_kE3lPysBfzs1y92t47WCNiFXnPxT-6/s1600-h/jennyp0001247.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314339655471025282" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgk__IGGyXrTu7B-3JVg_cUhoB2u1_RalxU4b3wGzr4FKFetHFXu4B2H_WPiJwjMLPW1ejZlNRrBMg8nB3fKKalCNFYU2qeGREHy-_17ajz9rNap_kE3lPysBfzs1y92t47WCNiFXnPxT-6/s400/jennyp0001247.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 719px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nnis-IpcZbvpbS1BOaeay4yhz2QyT2g_NGp3x69Jg3fGKaBAPRohBYuZeSnEw8uVQMTwBcotN7vX9BShmXa3gOxjcUY-Pxm7_GaRP0EWqiv9fXOh4iqYKqmdflyJGhgZpEsV4c5pgWwN/s1600-h/holzerBMW.JPG" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314339281038475794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj9nnis-IpcZbvpbS1BOaeay4yhz2QyT2g_NGp3x69Jg3fGKaBAPRohBYuZeSnEw8uVQMTwBcotN7vX9BShmXa3gOxjcUY-Pxm7_GaRP0EWqiv9fXOh4iqYKqmdflyJGhgZpEsV4c5pgWwN/s400/holzerBMW.JPG" style="cursor: pointer; width: 528px; height: 805px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTT5KZiYlDyt2QzwB0DczaEtYX7sEEOhozvJytzDR_LP_Xng2ILrwtu43478wn8n4-6_uepXsHiwn1p2Pn-ZFHDsEv6Zd0Xd4XdEgEka1U_D1wiuQYfaEHkuw5eE8ZIJZKp2ALRkJe0kv/s1600-h/90_holzer.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314339076869200194" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjhTT5KZiYlDyt2QzwB0DczaEtYX7sEEOhozvJytzDR_LP_Xng2ILrwtu43478wn8n4-6_uepXsHiwn1p2Pn-ZFHDsEv6Zd0Xd4XdEgEka1U_D1wiuQYfaEHkuw5eE8ZIJZKp2ALRkJe0kv/s400/90_holzer.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 527px; height: 395px;" /></a><br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj2sIBdgrFSxERh0r2Chr8_pXINiO2qJBTbbDlHOPXNTcuhtL4IcfxuPMMGnn1qVqkRm7IvKt2-tczV8m3Et0DeO3AZRTJw1bJboCiOXJ5mTUoqUlwnyt4v4qiCfIsNLvvU5F2kSfFPSD5/s1600-h/3jenny-holzer-art-car-199.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314339001663416226" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhj2sIBdgrFSxERh0r2Chr8_pXINiO2qJBTbbDlHOPXNTcuhtL4IcfxuPMMGnn1qVqkRm7IvKt2-tczV8m3Et0DeO3AZRTJw1bJboCiOXJ5mTUoqUlwnyt4v4qiCfIsNLvvU5F2kSfFPSD5/s400/3jenny-holzer-art-car-199.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 530px; height: 314px;" /></a><br />Photographs © BMW AG<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_YG5BWu0IEEpDEGTV1ifAXxJ0HSD4CtZmDkJCycC5tXD8M550WKebv5aBRne4wzwpdS-Rqkdei22R6fGnj4Mosswmv_8oI8ydokSF-EyL4MKFWfXhQCcFlDQM1OWp4xmGj-2Fqzr-odd/s1600-h/bmw3.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314325144061236114" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjg_YG5BWu0IEEpDEGTV1ifAXxJ0HSD4CtZmDkJCycC5tXD8M550WKebv5aBRne4wzwpdS-Rqkdei22R6fGnj4Mosswmv_8oI8ydokSF-EyL4MKFWfXhQCcFlDQM1OWp4xmGj-2Fqzr-odd/s400/bmw3.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 534px; height: 197px;" /></a><br />Left: David Hockney painting Art Car 1995, BMW 850 CSi<br />Right: Jenny Holzer signing Art Car 1999, BMW V12 LMR<br /><br />The final and 16th art car of the series thus far; <span style="font-weight: bold;">Olafur Eliasson</span>, H2R, 2007. He turned BMW’s hydrogen-powered race car into an Art Car on ice (this one has to be kept in a refrigerated room, for obvious reasons):<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfQCIbiHbfVsrrTpCZpBRzX5JASLJBtTJ8x52_lqPeLZSj4hc0B9dN-uW_yvQdcM2hevW98W2y_QMFSmPwICSV02Pr3-kv5Cme0i2PglL2DjrqSZD4v9Qj59tFCUhJx5klbUePhJA2oZe/s1600-h/finalicecar.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314333320983982626" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgJfQCIbiHbfVsrrTpCZpBRzX5JASLJBtTJ8x52_lqPeLZSj4hc0B9dN-uW_yvQdcM2hevW98W2y_QMFSmPwICSV02Pr3-kv5Cme0i2PglL2DjrqSZD4v9Qj59tFCUhJx5klbUePhJA2oZe/s400/finalicecar.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; width: 531px; height: 357px;" /></a><br />The Process - Installation view Studio Olafur Eliasson, Commissioned by BMW Group:<br /><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLdnA0qhO8mcwMqrYDFZu04n0Tue-dWX3h7YjErsF8PxyaBakIC2H1TsNz1S9IEIXaFHW7O-ETXlkuY15Wf6GF8y52ebrodnq-j54JJZhtt-hG8vC0XFU9zV8g_w0g5_-vJdwj3OAxxGdm/s1600-h/5_sfmoma_eliasson_yourmobilestudy.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"><img alt="" border="0" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5314331813202279106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLdnA0qhO8mcwMqrYDFZu04n0Tue-dWX3h7YjErsF8PxyaBakIC2H1TsNz1S9IEIXaFHW7O-ETXlkuY15Wf6GF8y52ebrodnq-j54JJZhtt-hG8vC0XFU9zV8g_w0g5_-vJdwj3OAxxGdm/s400/5_sfmoma_eliasson_yourmobilestudy.jpg" style="cursor: pointer; 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