Like taking a spin in Da Vinci”s Aerial Screw, or being taught to speak Nadsat by Alex and his Droogs.
Stars & Cars: Indianapolis Edition
The only party attended by Clark Gable, Barbara Stanwyck, Paul Newman, Jerry Lewis, Amelia Earhart, David Hasselhoff, Kim Kardashian, Jack Nicholson, and Ludacris.
Then, This Happened
Cadillac’s New New York Tabernacle
Cadillac takes an almost Mormon approach to its conversion mission: seeking new audiences and multiple partners, and building a tabernacle in New York City.
Supersonic, Stratos Zero, Gilda, GTO. Names that belong in a museum.
Ken Gross, a veteran automotive writer and historian, has worked tirelessly to elevate automotive design into the realm of capital-A Art. His latest exhibit is at the Frist Museum in Nashville. Come for the BATs, stay for the Braques and Brancusis.
Look! (Or Look Away!)
My first video for The Drive is live. (Fortunately, the Classic Car Club Manhattan dominates the frame.)
Aston Martin Raises a Double Bubble (In My Pants)
The newly unveiled Vanquish Zagato vanquishes all comers in the GT market.
Watch a Rolls Decompose
Rainer Keller”s stunning art series “Machine Overdrive”¯ is a acid-colored fantasia of Malaise-era automotive decay. (And you can buy one, affordably.)
BMW Builds a “Yacht”
“We call it a platform,”¯ Fresh says of the carbon fiber assemblage, which resembles two overturned canoes linked by a raft and tethered to a giant nylon feather, “The names””yacht, ship””haven”t quite caught up with the technology.”¯
Basquiat, Warhol, Rauschenberg, and Ruscha go for a Drive
“America is too big, its spirit too irrepressible, to be constrained by portraits, landscapes, or even abstraction. So for many American artists, the automobile is more than inspiration. It is a talisman; not just a part of the art, but the subject and the medium.”