BMW art car by Warhol

A can of Campbell’s soup, it’s not. But Andy Warhol still considered the BMW “art car” he designed to be a masterpiece. “I adore the car. It’s much better than a work of art,” Warhol said in 1979 when he hand-painted a BMW M1 in bold strokes of red, green, yellow and blue blurred into each other to portray speed. The car goes on display on at Grand Central Terminal Tuesday along with three other BMW art cars, designed by Frank Stella, Roy Lichtenstein and Robert Rauschenberg, as part of a public installation which will run through April 6. The BMW art car project, a continuing effort which commissions artists to use BMW cars as their canvas has produced 16 art cars since the first car designed in 1975 by American artist Alexander Calder. – from Reuters