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Blind Spots Abound in Guggenheim Bilbao’s Car-Themed Exhibition

Avatar photo by Erica Eisen September 6, 2022September 6, 2022

Motion lionizes the personal automobile as an objet d’art of unparalleled cultural influence while minimizing its negative effects. Oh, and it’s sponsored by Volkswagen and Cadillac.

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Art as the Vehicle of Choice

by Lynn Trimble August 18, 2022January 20, 2023

Latinx and Indigenous artists use automobiles to amplify their cultural identity and challenge systems of erasure.

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The Car as a Vehicle for Desire

by Jenny Che September 21, 2017

The most alluring aspect of the exhibition at the Fondation Cartier is its suggestion of what photographs of cars absent of people can convey.

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Eerie Photographs of Solitary Cars in 1970s New York

Avatar photo by Allison Meier May 17, 2017May 19, 2017

Cars: New York City, 1974–1976 collects 115 photographs by Langdon Clay of cars both beautiful and battered in the nighttime.

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The Car of the Future Could Be a Mirrored Minimalist Sculpture

Avatar photo by Carey Dunne October 26, 2015October 26, 2015

Silicon Valley is convinced that self-driving cars are the future of transport, and that in a few decades, we’ll look back at the vehicles of today — massive hunks of glass and metal hurtling around, powered by dumb humans — with disbelief.

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‘Back to the Future’ 30 Years Later, or Riding in Cars with Millennials

by Sarah Archer July 3, 2015October 21, 2015

One of the greatest pleasures of teaching design history to college students is time travel.

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Finding People in Los Angeles’s Urban Sprawl

by Laura C. Mallonee March 26, 2015March 26, 2015

The photographer Patrick Gookin recently explored the psychological ramifications of car culture in a series called LA by Car.

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20th-Century Models of Speed and Wonder

by Laura C. Mallonee December 9, 2014December 9, 2014

Transportation is one of the few industries in which design has so consistently been the driving force. Who hasn’t at some point been stopped in their tracks by the polished silhouette of a classic Corvette? The car’s controlled curves evoke speed, and that speed creates the illusion of power.

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Doing Battle with the Remains of Industrial America

by Christian L. Frock May 6, 2014May 7, 2014

SAN FRANCISCO — On a blustery, sunny Sunday afternoon, some 40 or 50 people gathered on a quiet road in nowheresville, 45 miles south of San Francisco in a quasi-industrial area of Fremont, to “celebrate the essence of NUMMI.”

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