By Molly Schiot
Whenever I go to visit my father back East, I stare into the window of the Maine State Prison Showroom where everything is handmade by inmates. There are bird houses and small wooden toys but the most impressive construction sits in the window. It is a life size hand carved wooden motorcycle with a man and woman sitting on top with stone faced expressions... continue reading

From June 3 - 8, I attended The Venice Biennale – The 53rd International Art Exhibition titled Making Worlds. The Venice Biennale was born through a resolution by the City Council of Venice in 1893 to found a "biennial national artistic exhibition"; the first Biennale was actually held in 1895... continue reading

New York-based artist Aaron Young is best known for his vast September 2007 spectacle of an art installation ‘Greeting Card’, where Young used his loudest brushes to date and orchestrated motorcyclists to burnout over painted wooden panels in the Park Avenue Armory... continue reading

Giacomo Balla, Shape Noise Motorcyclist, 1913, Tempera on Paper

I figured that a good place to start with an art blog related to motorcycles is the past. The history of art has been intrinsically linked to technology since the dawn of time, but one movement in particular really stands out when it comes to artists’ dedication to speed, noise, machines, youth, violence and industrialness in general: Futurism... continue reading