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Lifestyle / 6 Jan 2017

BMW cultural manager Thomas Girst on Baldessari’s Art Car and challenging perceptions

This year two very different BMW Art Cars will be presented side-by-side. The second of the two, Art Car #19 by Los Angeles conceptual artist John Baldessari was previewed at the end of last year at Art Basel Miami Beach...

Art / 8 Dec 2016

Top speed: John Baldessari creates his fastest ever artwork for BMW

During this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, BMW unveiled the latest instalment of its Art Car collection, this time created in collaboration with American artist John Baldessari. It’s the 19th in a series of vehicles (or ‘rolling sculptures’) created by visual...

Lifestyle / 28 Oct 2016

Clean concepts and notable no-shows abound at the 2016 Paris Motor Show

‘Ready for change’ read a sign on the Mercedes-Benz pavilion. It signifies the marque’s new electric mobility sub-brand, yet unknowingly it also highlights another fundamental shift. From the hundreds of cars on exhibit at Mondial de l’Automobile, many will never...

Lifestyle / 11 Jul 2016

Toiletpaper builds car for BMW

BMW’s Art Car series encompasses a forty-year history of collaborations with blue chip artists, who have designed and decorated versions of the Bavarian brand’s iconic vehicles, from Alexander Calder’s vibrant color collage ‘Batmobile’ BMW CSL in 1975, to Jeff Koons’ polychromatic...

Lifestyle / 17 Jun 2016

The Next 100 Years: BMW celebrates centenary with trio of concept cars

Most big corporations have a department dedicated to crystal ball gazing, but only the auto industry translates that fevered speculation into physical form in the shape of concept cars. To celebrate its centenary, the BMW Group has created a triumvirate...

Lifestyle / 27 May 2016

Mid-market masterpiece: BMW reveal the M2 Coupé

It won’t have escaped your notice that cars are getting bigger and bigger. BMW is not alone in seeing its model range undergo gradual inflation over the years. The new M2, at a modest 4.46m long, is longer and...

Lifestyle / 8 Jan 2016

All grown up: BMW introduce the new Mini Clubman

What do you do once you’ve re-built a brand from the bare bones of fond childhood memories and carefully re-interpreted design features, only to discover that the resulting creation has outgrown the cultural status of the original? Perhaps this is...

Art / 18 Dec 2015

BMW Art Journey reveals shortlisted creatives at Art Basel Miami Beach

It is easy to be cynical about corporate-sponsored art. Necessary even. But a lot of art wouldn’t get made without it. Some of it good. Elsewhere on this site you can read about Isaac Julien’s marvelous Stones Against Diamonds, a...

Lifestyle / 9 Dec 2015

Tokyo Motorshow count down of the top ten new automobiles

You can’t beat the Tokyo Motorshow for concept cars. Every two years the best Japanese car (and motorbike) manufacturers, plus a sprinkling of European and US brands, come up with new and thoughtful ideas for going faster (and slower, but...

Lifestyle / 4 Sep 2015

Executive decision

The ‘welcome carpet’ rolls out an expanse of white light to receive passengers. Once aboard, they can snuggle in the soft, quilted leather seats, trigger the vitality programme for some active massage, or release the foot rest and recline to...

Lifestyle / 12 Aug 2015

High climber: BMW X5 heads up the brand’s X family

In many respects, BMW have a lot to answer for when it comes to car design. While the Bavarian masters are still forging new markets for electric and hybrid cars with their award-winning ’i’ range, the company’s first foray into...

Lifestyle / 15 Jun 2015

Hot wheels: our highlights of the 2015 Concorso d’Eleganza in Villa d’Este

Simply put, the Concorso d’Eleganza Villa d’Este, on the shores of Italy’s Lake Como, is the world’s most exclusive automotive beauty pageant. The basic ingredients are thus: 50 or so of the rarest cars ever built, 30 of the most...

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