Charger in the Guggenheim

[71charger_fan]

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/28/arts/design/28prin.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1

[BMOTOXSTAR]

 

[Magnumcharger]

I've got a piece of art, worthy of the Guggenheim Museum....right in my garage!!

[41husk]

Now that is a unique storage syatem

[aone415]

HAHA I was just gonna post this.... Since I work in NYC I may stop in to see it

[NYCMille]

Yea, I'll be checking it out tomorrow....

[Hemidoug]

He should have used a Chebby instead......Might as well have painted it orange and jumped a bunch of VWs.......     What a total waste of what looks like a nice solid body....

[Old Moparz]

Yea, I'll be checking it out tomorrow....

What time? Maybe I'll see you there.

I had a weekend camping trip planned, but with a very sick pet, we might just make a day trip to the city instead. In all the years I lived, worked & went to school in NYC, the Guggenheim is one place I never made it to other than to walk past it.

[BrianShaughnessy]

Yea, I'll be checking it out tomorrow....

What time? Maybe I'll see you there.

I had a weekend camping trip planned, but with a very sick pet, we might just make a day trip to the city instead. In all the years I lived, worked & went to school in NYC, the Guggenheim is one place I never made it to other than to walk past it.

ahemm.....   Mopars at the Valley  :whistling:l

[Ghoste]

While I most certainly agree that Chargers are a work of art wouldn't this be somewhat akin to redisplaying the Mona Lisa as an anatomy chart?
In any case, the "artist" has likely bilked some foundation into paying him big bucks for this vision when in reality he's using the funds to restore a Charger.  My hats off to him.

[dodgecharger-fan]

Why I don't go to museums and art galleries:

"His specialty is a carefully constructed hybrid that is also some kind of joke, charged by conflicting notions of high, low and lower."



He designed the Prius?

[aone415]

Wait!?!?! So we all think that 2nd generation Chargers are beautiful and a work of art, but when one is displayed in a museum as a piece of art some of us don't like it???  To me the car being shown in bare metal as art is far better than some clown making a GL replica and then choosing to jump it or movie directors buying good chargers and then destroying them in movies for a 'cool' effect. 

A car in bare metal can always be restored.

[dqhemi]

You might want to read this article as well:

http://www.nytimes.com/2007/09/23/arts/design/23kenn.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

I was at the Guggenheim last night for the preview of the exhibit and dinner afterwards for the artist.
His exhibit was very impressive, filled the entire museum, the spiral you see going up have artwork on the walls all the way to the top of the building, like 12 floors.

Shows 30 years of his work and how its changed over time. 
My wife and I found it very interesting and really enjoyed seeing so much of his work.
He has a great sense of humor in his work as well - some of it is very funny. 

And the 69 Charger is front and center in the atrium when you walk in - pretty cool in my book!

Richard is a client of ours and an XV car we built for him will be on display at an exhibit of his in Regent Park in London next month.
Pretty cool that one of our cars is being treated as a piece of art and being exhibited as such!

[Nacho-RT74]

I've got a piece of art, worthy of the Guggenheim Museum....right in my garage!!

the problem your is 68... is not that kind of piece of art like a 69 LOL

[Ghoste]

Wait!?!?! So we all think that 2nd generation Chargers are beautiful and a work of art, but when one is displayed in a museum as a piece of art some of us don't like it???  To me the car being shown in bare metal as art is far better than some clown making a GL replica and then choosing to jump it or movie directors buying good chargers and then destroying them in movies for a 'cool' effect. 

A car in bare metal can always be restored.

I am in agreement with you but I would like to see the exhibit to know whether I like the piece or not.  The part we all find as a work of art has already been done... by somebody else!  The person who has this exhibit did not pen the lines for the 2nd gen Charger as far as I know so I have to assume that the "art" portion comes with the context of the exhibit.  Having not seen it in context, all I can judge it on is that it is a stripped Charger and that's why my comments on a Mona Lisa as a muscle and skeleton drawing were made.  I'm not slamming it by any means but I can certainly see how my comment comes across as such.

[BB1]

Walk into my garage, I'm a better artist.   

[69bronzeT5]

I saw on Moparts he also has a 73 Cuda in his "collection" of "art". Its also rusty and has some bondo and different coloured paint on it.

[Magnumcharger]

Here's another award winner:
http://www.coolhunting.com/archives/2005/01/dukes_of_hazard.php

[tricky lugnuts]

There was an article in last Sunday's NY Times about Richard Prince. (Yes, I read the $5 Sunday NY Times every week -- or try to . . .)

They called him the "Duchamp of the Muscle Car." He just built a big garage/work space for cars and works of art in his backyard. I guess he lives in some podunk town in upstate New York. There's a '72-74 Barracuda he's got, and one hell of a '70 Challenger done up XV Motorsports -- he says it's his favorite car ever.

Came across as a Mopar guy to me -- so I guess we'll have to see if he has any other plans for that clean looking Charger body. In the meanwhile, the Guggenheim is probably pretty good in terms of climate controlled storage!!! And maybe profits from the display will help him have that transformed into an XV work of art like his Challenger. 

[Mean 318]

SO this jack ass can throw spackle and wood scraps on a car and call it art... but a guy who spends years restoring a car.... what a hack... may as well have jumped it! At least the cars that were jumped were already junk!