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Fast wheels, modernist dreams
The striking black-and-silver 1934 BMW motorbike in the Portland Art Museum lobby sits in front of a digital reader board that intermittently displays an image of one of Monet’s Water Lilies – an apt reminder of the The Shape of Speed’s leitmotif: vehicles can be art. Certain vehicles. Not Toyota Camrys or Dodge minivans or […]
John Foyston