At Art Basel Miami Beach, Jeff Koons unveiled at least one sculpture that was not pornographic or a balloon animal. But it was shiny. (HINT: It’s a BMW Art Car!) Read all about this handsome vehicle, and every other car in the Art Car series, in my latest for Men’s Journal.
I appeared on NPR’s Freakonomics show this week, talking about weird automotive safety innovations that failed. Listen to the podcast here.
I went down to Miami Beach for a few days to cover the opening of the Art Basel Miami Beach art fair, and concomitant cultural clusterfuck, for Vanity Fair. Here is all of my coverage in one place.
1) I met up with Marina Abramovic, and we talked about Art, spirituality, and fundraising for her new Rem Koolhaas-designed Institute.
2) Hanging with Cindy Crawford, Maseratis, and smoking middle-aged French men cruising teenage girls.
3) All the best parties, starring Cadillacs, Koons, and Kanye.
Are Aston Martins the world’s most lickable cars? Find out at Yahoo! Autos.
We take Ferrari’s latest technological marvel for a tour of the mid-19th Century’s greatest technological marvel. For Vanity Fair.
If you hate fun, you will hate this car.
Inside the Bizarre (and Dangerous?) World of New Orleans’ Cereal and Candy Cars.
I talk to high-end fashion designers Thom Browne and Zac Posen about the luxe, one-off, $75,000 special edition Infiniti Q50s they each designed for Gilt.com’s holiday catalog. My latest for Men’s Journal
I have two articles in this month’s Road & Track magazine. In the first, I write about a test track in Arizona that replicates the shittiest road in New York City–an ersatz stretch used by Nissan to test their so-called Taxi of Tomorrow. I also test drive a new Rolls Royce in the Austrian Alps, and deem it as decidedly on brand as Hell (as in, Hades).
Click the thumbnails above to view crappy links of each piece, or just buy the magazine on the newsstand, you chintzy bitch.
What do the young people think of the all new, youth-oriented, $29,900 Mercedes-Benz CLA250? To find out, we had an actual Millennial test drive one, for Vanity Fair.