Los Angeles Museum of Art is having an interesting exhibition this month: four of the famous BMW Art Cars are ready for the presentation in the BP Grand Entrance today. The display is free of charge to the public.

BMW Art Cars project started in 1975 when French racer Hervé Poulain asked the artist Alexander Calder to use his racing BMW as a canvas for his next work. During the next years the idea was picked up and 16 BMWs both production and racing models were painted by artists.

The visitors of the LA Museum will see 1976 model decorated by Frank Stella, 1977 car painted by Roy Lichtenstein, 1979 auto brightened by Andy Warhol and 1986 BMW ornamented by Robert Rauschenberg. The presentation of the Art Cars will be accompanied by behind-the-scenes video which shows how the artists worked on their “canvases”.

After the Los Angeles visit, the BMWs will move to New York’s Grand Central Terminal for a two-week presentation from March 24 to April 6. Then they move to Mexico and other countries. The whole world tour will take two years after which the BMWs are coming back home to BMW Museum in Munich.