# Julie Mehretu will create BMW’s next Art Car

- Link: https://www.widthness.com/julie-mehretu-will-create-bmws-next-art-car/
- Published: 2023-07-03T09:30:02-05:00
- Author: Curated by Theresa Wysocki

Photo caption: Julie Mehretu at the Rolex 24 at Daytona, 2023. © Julian Kroehl. Article by Benjamin Sutton. The Art Newspaper – June 28, 2023. The artist, known for her dynamic compositions in two dimensions, will bring that sense of movement to a car with a maximum speed of around 345km per hour Julie Mehretu, the revered New York-based painter known for her large-scale architectonic compositions, will soon be working with a surface as dynamic as the swirling forms for which she is known: she has been selected to create the next BMW Art Car, the 20th in the German automaker’s series of contemporary art commissions. […] Click here to view original web page at www.theartnewspaper.com