"He’s probably the world’s most successful living artist (using dollars as a measure) and he’s got a major retrospective circling the globe that has just landed in the Guggenheim, Bilbao. Back in the early 1980s Jeff Koons "
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Hart to Hart: Car Spotting
"TV series of the 1970s and 1980s are ripe for car spotting. And these productions don't get any more tantalising for car spotters than the jokey, schlockey grinfest that was Hart to Hart. Yes, there's a Ferrari Dino and a "
Evel Knievel London 1975
"On Bank holiday Monday at the end of May 1975, Evel Knievel appeared in London's Wembley Stadium. 40 years have passed since this totemic point in London pop culture – and looking at the home-made cine film footage we found, it's a window "
American Metal – LA Triptych: Manifest Destiny
" Los Angeles weaves a strange magic. You arrive at night. The Atlantic Ocean and the massive continent of America has slipped under your keel these last ten hours. The LA megalopolis appears as a vast patchwork blanket of light set "
The Goob
"On May 29 The Goob is due to hit cinemas. What is the Goob? Not sure. We haven't seen the film yet. But director Guy Myhill has assembled a cast of little known, striking looking actors and has focussed on our "
J.G. Ballard: The Shepperton Shaman
"It was six years ago this April we lost that great writer, thinker and mythologist of the near future, J.G. Ballard. Ballard had a complex relationship with the automobile. You can see this most famously in his 1973 novel Crash, "
Phillip Glass Digs BMW R69
"Phillip Glass loved his BMW motorcycles. Whether there's a musical metaphor in there we don't know – but it emerged yesterday that the post-modernist composer and musician spent a lot of time on the back of an R69 BMW, which he "
Winning: The Racing Life of Paul Newman
"Paul Newman was a Hollywood actor. But he was also racing driver. Many of you will have known that. But it might be a shock to discover that, from the time he first piloted a racing car in his mid "
Buick, Julian Cope & Jayne Mansfield
"The other day, we picked up a copy of Julian Cope's debut Novel 131. If you've never heard of the freakoid musical visionary and former frontman of postpunk combo 'The Teardrop Explodes', Julian Cope (below) strides like the proverbial colossus across "
The Quiet Collaborator: Valmet Automotive
"Did you drive a Saab in the early 1980s and imagine you were travelling around in your own little piece of Swedish mechanosphere? If so, here’s some news, the chances are you were equally likely to be enjoying a "
Mad Max: Fury Road
"This really could be the car-chase movie to end all car-chase movies. George Miller's Mad Max: Fury Road will be hitting screens here in the UK on 15 May. Petrol heads and Hollywood are currently stuck in an absurdly patronising boogie "
Ferrari Knickers?
"No, we’ve not gone all Dada-ist this mad March. It’s just that brand extension amongst the culture of hi-end automotive retail has reached ridiculous proportions. Bentley, in fact have a number of answers to the question 'what is "
Boyhood film and the Pontiac GTO
"If you haven't seen Richard Linklater's Oscar-winning film, Boyhood, yet, you should. The film is brilliant - real achievement at many levels and for many reasons, but for members of this particular parish - the part played by the Pontiac "