(The Petersen Automotive Museum)
Appearing for the first time in North America in over 30 years, "Andy Warhol: Cars – Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection" will go on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The groundbreaking exhibition will open to the public on July 23rd and will present a rare and exclusive look at the relationship between the “Cars” artwork series and the vehicles it depicts. Taking place in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery on the museum’s first floor, the unique display features five of the eight Mercedes-Benz vehicles ultimately depicted in Warhol’s final commission. Among the extremely rare assemblage are some of the most iconic cars in the world, including a 1937 W 125, which is on loan from the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany. The machine was initially built for Grand Prix racing and features a supercharged eight-cylinder engine producing 637HP, making it one of the most powerful road-racing cars for three decades. Also making its way from the German museum is the unique 1970 C 111-II. This experimental Mercedes-Benz used a highly-aerodynamic fiberglass body and tri-rotor Wankel engine (later replaced with a turbo-charged diesel) to reach speeds of 200 mph. On loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is the spectacular 1954 W 196 streamliner. A Formula One car piloted by racing legends Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss, the W 196 model won two world championships before Mercedes pulled out of competitive racing for three decades. Forty original Warhol works from the “Cars” series, all on loan from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, are presented accompanying the historical vehicles.
(The Petersen Automotive Museum)
The AE Song of the Week:
Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done
You should've never have been playing with a gun
In those Complicated Shadows
Well there's a line that you must toe
And it'll soon be time to go
But it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
All you gangsters and rude clowns
Who were shooting up the town
When you should have found someone to put the blame on
Though the fury's hot and hard
I still see that cold graveyard
There's a solitary stone that's got your name on
You don't have to take it from me
But I know what I spake
You think you're like iron and steel
But iron and steel will bend and break
In those Complicated Shadows
Go!
Sometimes justice you will find
Is just dumb not colour-blind
And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in
All those phantoms and those shades
Should Jump up on Judgement Day
And say to the Almighty "I'm still stinking of sin"
But the jury was dismissed
Took his neck and they give it a twist
So you see you won't be missed in those Complicated Shadows
You can say just what you like in a voice like a John Ford film
Take the law into your hands
You will soon get tired of killing
In those Complicated Shadows
Complicated Shadows Go!
"Complicated Shadows" by Elvis Costello, from the album "All This Useless Beauty" (1996).* Written by Declan MacManus; produced by Geoff Emerick and Elvis Costello. Courtesy of Universal Music Group. Listen here.
*Editor-in-Chief's Note: One of my favorite songs by Elvis Costello, made even more famous when it was used in The Sopranos. If you know, you know. -PMD
Appearing for the first time in North America in over 30 years, "Andy Warhol: Cars – Works from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection" will go on display at the Petersen Automotive Museum in Los Angeles, CA. The groundbreaking exhibition will open to the public on July 23rd and will present a rare and exclusive look at the relationship between the “Cars” artwork series and the vehicles it depicts. Taking place in the Armand Hammer Foundation Gallery on the museum’s first floor, the unique display features five of the eight Mercedes-Benz vehicles ultimately depicted in Warhol’s final commission. Among the extremely rare assemblage are some of the most iconic cars in the world, including a 1937 W 125, which is on loan from the Mercedes-Benz Museum in Germany. The machine was initially built for Grand Prix racing and features a supercharged eight-cylinder engine producing 637HP, making it one of the most powerful road-racing cars for three decades. Also making its way from the German museum is the unique 1970 C 111-II. This experimental Mercedes-Benz used a highly-aerodynamic fiberglass body and tri-rotor Wankel engine (later replaced with a turbo-charged diesel) to reach speeds of 200 mph. On loan from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is the spectacular 1954 W 196 streamliner. A Formula One car piloted by racing legends Juan Manuel Fangio and Stirling Moss, the W 196 model won two world championships before Mercedes pulled out of competitive racing for three decades. Forty original Warhol works from the “Cars” series, all on loan from the Mercedes-Benz Art Collection, are presented accompanying the historical vehicles.
(The Petersen Automotive Museum)The AE Song of the Week:
Well you know your time has come and you're sorry for what you've done
You should've never have been playing with a gun
In those Complicated Shadows
Well there's a line that you must toe
And it'll soon be time to go
But it's darker than you know in those Complicated Shadows
All you gangsters and rude clowns
Who were shooting up the town
When you should have found someone to put the blame on
Though the fury's hot and hard
I still see that cold graveyard
There's a solitary stone that's got your name on
You don't have to take it from me
But I know what I spake
You think you're like iron and steel
But iron and steel will bend and break
In those Complicated Shadows
Go!
Sometimes justice you will find
Is just dumb not colour-blind
And your poor shattered mind can't take it all in
All those phantoms and those shades
Should Jump up on Judgement Day
And say to the Almighty "I'm still stinking of sin"
But the jury was dismissed
Took his neck and they give it a twist
So you see you won't be missed in those Complicated Shadows
You can say just what you like in a voice like a John Ford film
Take the law into your hands
You will soon get tired of killing
In those Complicated Shadows
Complicated Shadows Go!
"Complicated Shadows" by Elvis Costello, from the album "All This Useless Beauty" (1996).* Written by Declan MacManus; produced by Geoff Emerick and Elvis Costello. Courtesy of Universal Music Group. Listen here.
*Editor-in-Chief's Note: One of my favorite songs by Elvis Costello, made even more famous when it was used in The Sopranos. If you know, you know. -PMD
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