BMW Art Car Collection

1977 BMW 320i Group 5 Racing Version by Roy Lichtenstein

1975 BMW 3.0 CSL by Alexander Calder

It started in September of 2006 in Kuala Lumpur and now it reaches New York City. On view through April 6 at the Grand Central Terminal, the BMW Art Car Collection exhibition is sure to please everybody, from kids, to men and women. I particularly love the Calder model, the first of the series, with its race car painting approach, but other artists like Warhol, Rauschenberg and Hockney did a very good job as well. The 16 cars will go next tour in Mexico.

Cherie Blair in The Nude

The painting, Striding Nude, Blue Dress, by Euan Uglow was scheduled to go on public display in 2006 but was withdrawn at the last minute.

London gallery selling painting based on a 1972 sketch of Tony Blair’s wife

By Andy McSmith (fom  The Independent) here for the full article

Cherie Blair paid a private visit to an art gallery this week to be reminded of what she looked like in the nude more than 30 years ago. There, hanging on the wall, is an artist’s sketch of her naked form on fading brown paper, and a painting based on the sketch.

The painting, Striding Nude, Blue Dress, by Euan Uglow was scheduled to go on public display in 2006 but was withdrawn at the last minute. It is now on display and listed for sale at a Mayfair art gallery in London, with a price tag of £600,000. (…)

John Stezaker

If you still haven’t heard about John Stezaker, you will. His collages of Hollywood portraits, postcards, magazine photos have been put together for over twenty years and keep being fresh and fun with a dark twist. Sometimes Dada, sometimes surrealist, but always humorous and witty his most recent work can be seen at Friederich Petzel Gallery in New York.