HOUSTON — When Ann and Jim Harithas opened Houston's Art Car Museum in 1998, they wanted to offer a place where you could see art cars year-round. The result is a gallery that mixes more traditional ...

The BMW Art Car Collection, a unique confluence of automotive engineering and fine art producing some of the fastest moving sculptures the world has ever seen, began as an inspired experiment and has ...

The 20th BMW Art Car, created by artist Julie Mehretu, was just unveiled in Paris. Based on the BMW M Hybrid V8 endurance race car, Mehretu’s rolling masterpiece will join the past 19 BMW Art Cars ...

No, your eyes do not deceive you: that is a Chrysler Conquest—America’s version of the Mitsubishi Starion—painted to look like a car from Initial D or Auto Modellista has been ripped from its ...

Houston’s Art Car Museum, a beloved tribute to both local and national car artists, is slated to close after 25 years in business. Recently announced on the museum’s website, officials said the famed ...

All of the mid-century classic cars one sees during the Woodward Dream Cruise started out as an auto designer’s paper drawing. “We used hand-drawn sketches,” said Wayne Kady, 84, of Royal Oak who was ...

BMW’s latest Art Car almost didn’t come into existence, says its creator, Julie Mehretu. “I actually tried to turn it down.” It’s not that she wasn’t interested. The abstract artist has long been a ...

A new exhibit opening April 8 at the Guggenheim Bilbao in Spain explores the relationship between art and the auto. The Frank Gehry-designed museum opened in 1997 and will feature seven galleries of ...