You know we loves us some Jeff Koons! Via NY Times Magazine
Winning is not supposed to be everything but that’s just what we say to a losing team. To the victors go all the spoils. For some, they include a new BMW. For BMW, the prize is art — or rather artists. It helps if they are famous enough to be their own brands — a Warhol, Lichtenstein or Haring — and a big enough sport to paint a race car headed for Le Mans. For this June’s grand prix, the artist is Jeff Koons.
At a press conference with BMW executives this week, Koons unveiled his design for the company’s next “Art Car.†It’s the 17th in a series that began in 1975 with a custom paint job by Alexander Calder, the man who invented the “mobile†in sculpture. His car was in the room. It was a primary-colored patchwork of Calder boomerangs and looked pretty cute. Koons’s model was there too, a plain white M3 GT2 to be driven by Andy Priaulx. This car can get to 100 miles per hour in three seconds. Koons will give it an added boost with a finish he says will express “the aesthetics of winning.â€
Read the full piece on the NY Times site.
We almost forgot: on the 22nd of April, Team opened a show entitled Another Modern Moment Completed by New York artist Gardar Eide Einarsson that we cannot wait to check out. It’s all black and white paintings, which is something we cannot get enough of these days.
Arkitip‘s latest issue — No. 0054 – is out and features the work of SF artist Serena Mitnik-Miller, whose painting and photography we like.
If you’re in LA, stop by Regen Projects starting 04.24.10 to see Catherine Opie‘s Twelve Minutes to the Horizon.
Looks like Creative Time is stepping it up with their At 44 1/2 project in Times Square.
