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	ArtCar Museum - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The museum's mission is to elevate awareness of the political, economic, and personal dimensions of art.
		The museum was founded by Ann Harithas, artist and long-time supporter of the Art Car movement, and James Harithas, former director of the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C., the Everson Museum of Art, Syracuse, New York, the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, Texas, and current director of the Station Museum, Houston, Texas.
		The museum showroom celebrates the spirit of this post-modern age of car-culture, in which artists have remolded stock cars to the specifications of their own idiosyncratic images and visions.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Art_Car_Museum (225 words)

	Petersen Automotive Museum
		Art Cars are defined as decorated, yet driveable street-legal vehicles that can be used regularly for going to work, running errands, or taking a trip.
		The modifications an Art Car artist might make to a car are considered an affront to some, but many critics may not realize that the artist is simply expressing a kind of creative freedom allowed in few other countries.
		Art Cars are created for many reasons, in different ways, by a variety of people and with every highway and byway as a gallery.
	www.petersen.org /default.cfm?docid=1019 (783 words)

	Day Trips
		Art cars have grown to such proportions that there is an informal international community of artists united by their love of creating one-vehicle parades.
		The Art Car Museum is funded and supported by the Ineri Foundation, an alternative arts foundation begun by artist and patron Ann Harithas and her husband, Jim, a former director of the Houston Contemporary Arts Museum.
		The Art Car Museum is west of downtown Houston at 140 S. Heights Blvd. a couple of blocks south of the Katy Freeway (I-10W) and north of Washington Avenue.
	www.austinchronicle.com /issues/vol18/issue16/cols.daytrips.html (995 words)

	Museum and Art Finder
		Haggerty Museum of Art Marquette University - Milwaukee, Wisconsin
		Museum of Art and Archaeology at the University of Missouri Columbia, Missouri
		Muzeum Sztuki (Museum of Art) in Lodz Lodz, Poland
	ourworld.compuserve.com /homepages/easysurf/museum.htm (4473 words)

	Arts & Entertainment 2 -- The Daily Cougar Online (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		"Through their art, they communicate Palestinian aspirations for a better future," said James Harithas, the director of the Art Car Museum, which is sponsoring the exhibit.
		World Art Car Day, Nov. 1, is just a few weeks away, and the museum will sponsor workshops and an art car exhibition.
		The Art Car Museum and The Station are always free, but they are only open from 11 a.m.
	www.stp.uh.edu /vol69/37/arts/arts2.html (467 words)

	Welcome to Art Education at the University of Houston
		The museum’s goal is to encourage the public’s awareness of the cultural, political, economic, and personal dimensions of art.
		The Contemporary Arts Museum is a non-collecting institution dedicated to presenting the finest regional, national and international art of the last 40 years in a dynamic exhibition schedule which is accompanied by publications and educational programming for local, regional, national and international audiences.
		The Museum believes the living artist is its greatest educational asset and seeks to bring artists and the public into contact in as many ways as possible.
	www.coe.uh.edu /arted/page_museums.htm (317 words)

	MoMA.org \| Exhibitions \| 2002 \| AutoBodies - Smartcar
		As suggested by its clever marketing slogan "reduced to the max," the Smart Car has been developed to maximize the convenience, comfort, and safety of driver and passenger, while minimizing the impact on the environment.
		Cars are sold at "Smart Centers" throughout Europe, where the brightly colored vehicles are stacked in towers like objects in a display case, clearly aimed at youthful, style-conscious consumers seeking an affordable car.
		Since their debut in 1998, nearly half a million Smart Cars have been produced, and they have become a common sight in Europe—sometimes two per conventional parking space.
	www.moma.org /exhibitions/2002/autobodies/smartcar.html (251 words)

	The Art Car Museum
		The The Art Car Museum is in Houston, in Texas (United States).
		The The Ian Potter Museum of Art at the University of Melbourne is in Melbourne, in Victoria (Australia).
		The The Schick Art Gallery and The Tang Museum at Skidmore College is in Saratoga Springs, in New York (United States).
	www.artdictionary.org /The_Art_Car_Museum.htm (600 words)

	Art car - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Art cars have been surfaced with stone, with brick, with computer boards, with pennies, with tree bark.
		Lowriders and Custom cars are often works of art in their own right and some Art car parades and gatherings have allowed them as entrants over the years.
		Many cars will have permanent modifications that they drive around with on a daily basis as well as temporary modifications that are attached only for special events and parades due to the delicacy of these aspects, potential for theft and vandalism, or their unsuitability for driving at high speeds.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Art_car (2107 words)

	GoCityKids Houston \| Art Car Museum
		For a different kind of museum experience, the Art Car Museum has cars that have been turned into works of art.
		Cars are covered in beads, colorful tiles, animal skulls, pool balls...a plethora of odd objects.
		Also on display are framed pictures of other art cars, as well as several televisions showing informative and entertaining videos on this unique art form.
	www.gocitykids.com /browse/attraction.jsp?id=112240 (125 words)

	Zenzibar Alternative Culture Directory
		Art car enthusiast, agent and event promoter Harrod Blank is at the forefront of the art car movement.
		Driving an art car is a definite ice-breaker at cocktail parties and a definite deterrant to road rage.
		An art car is a car that has been decorated in a manner that is very decidedly not factory standard.
	www.zenzibar.com /Beta/directory.asp?cat=AA (1037 words)

	American Visionary Art Museum - Art Cars!
		The owner of the car decides that he/she wants to alter the car, not necessarily converting what's under the hood, but instead transforming the exterior/interior of the car.
		Some people approach the alteration of their cars cautiously and tentatively, opting to use materials of a temporary nature, such as paper and tape.
		Some are satisfied with the original shape of the car and decide to simply paint it, treating the vehicle as though it were a canvas.
	www.avam.org /artcar (560 words)

	Harvard University Art Museums - General Information, Directions
		The Busch-Reisinger Museum in Werner Otto Hall is located behind the Fogg Art Museum on Prescott Street, and is entered through a doorway on the second floor of the Fogg.
		The three art museums -- the Fogg, Busch-Reisinger, and the Sackler -- are on the corner of Quincy and Broadway.
		Parking in the vicinity of the Art Museums is difficult, and is restricted to Cambridge residents only on many nearby local streets.
	www.artmuseums.harvard.edu /information/directions.html (868 words)

	(GCD550) Art Car Museum by Babslover (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		This museum is an architectural event in itself from the outside.
		Art Cars and The Sons of Hermann, what a great block in the Heights.
		Never been to the museum (still haven't as the was no parking available) but we never miss the parade.
	www.geocaching.com /seek/cache_details.aspx?wp=GCD550 (360 words)

	North Carolina Museum of Art - Outreach Exhibitions
		Presented in conjunction with Monet in Normandy, Revolution in Paint is the first exhibition in the southeastern United States to examine the working materials of the impressionist painters and place their techniques within an historical context.
		In 2003, realizing the ever-increasing importance of photography in contemporary art, as well as the medium’s strength among the artists in our state, the North Carolina Museum of Art embarked on building a significant contemporary photography collection.
		Museum curators decided that the foundation of this new collection would begin with works by contemporary photographers in North Carolina who are creating images with subjects and styles reflective of the major movements in national and international photography.
	ncartmuseum.org /exhibitions/current.shtml (1045 words)

	Welcome to the Frick
		The Frick celebrates the New Woman of the late nineteenth century with a groundbreaking exhibition at The Frick Art Museum and an installation at Clayton inspired by women’s roles in Gilded Age holiday preparations.
		The Frick Art and Historical Center is a fascinating complex of museums and historical buildings located on over five acres of lawns and gardens in Pittsburgh's residential East End.
		The Frick Art and Historical Center grounds, The Frick Art Museum, Car and Carriage Museum, and Greenhouse are free.
	frickart.org /home (344 words)

	FBI and Secret Service pay a visit to the Art Car Museum
		Following is interviews with Donna who was working when the agents came and Tex who is a curator at the art car museum.
		Donna, who was opening the museum for the day escorted them through the exhibit and talked with them about the artwork.
		We are just exercising our freedom of speech, our freedom of expression, because that is what art is supposed to be, a part of history, you create history, because you know when you did a piece you were feeling this way because of these reasons.
	www.refuseandresist.org /newrepression/112001carmuseum.html (1597 words)

	About the SCCM, unique, diverse, and spacious
		Located on U.S. 41 in Sarasota, Florida, the Museum’s 60,000 square foot facility sits on 4 acres of land near such good neighbors as The Ringling Museum of Art and the Asolo Theater, home of the Sarasota Ballet Company.
		The Museum features a “living” collection of over 100 automobiles, constantly being updated through acquisitions, exchanges with other car museums, and through donations of vehicles from collectors.
		The Museum’s mission is to educate and entertain visitors on these magnificent, mechanical works of art and their impact on society over the last 10 decades.
	www.sarasotacarmuseum.org /about.html (364 words)

	ArtsJournal: ARTOPIA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Guston and later Marden seem to mirror this sudden leap in art, not that a higher or less of degree of abstraction is better or worse, not that art evolves.
		Now, of course, the American Craft Museum is totally independent of the ACC and has recently changed its name to the Museum of the Arts and Design.
		And yet the art is on the whole exceptional, the theme (or themes) explored in a complicated way, and the pauses-for-thought unavoidable.
	www.artsjournal.com /artopia (6017 words)

	Home
		The International Model Car Builders' Museum was founded with a simple goal: Preserve the memories of this great hobby for all hobbyists - old and new – and present current events which advance the high art of building highly-detailed scale vehicles.
		Hot 250/Clone the Past program, the Museum is either acquiring or replicating the most famous, influential models in the past.
		This is one of the many significant models that the Museum is in the process of restoring.
	www.themodelcarmuseum.org /index.html (399 words)

	[Infoshop News] Feds find weird art but not anthrax terrorists at the Art Car Museum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		While it might not be for typical Monet-loving museum patrons, the four-year-old art car institution has never tried to pass itself off as a typical stuffy gallery -- or a lair of bin Laden, either.
		Huanca wondered if it was an art crowd prank, but they told her they were following up on complaints they received about anti-American activity at the museum.
		The museum complaint was among thousands of calls received by the Houston office since September 11.
	flag.blackened.net /pipermail/infoshop-news/2001-November/000292.html (1083 words)

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		The museum, founded by Ann Harithas, artist and long-time supporter of the Art Car movement, and James Harithas, former director of the Corcoran Museum, Washington, D.C., the Everson Museum, Syracuse, New York and the Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, Texas, opened in February, 1998.
		The Museum features the most imaginative, elaborate, and artfully constructed art cars, low riders, and mobile contraptions, as well as displaying exhibitions of art.
		As a result of the popularity of the 1984 Collision Show at the Lawndale Art Center which saw the unveiling of Larry Fuente’s Mad Cad, art car workshops were founded in Houston, eventually precipitating the Art Car Parade and the Art Car movement as we know it today.
	www.houstonheightsonline.com /listing.asp?id=685 (170 words)

	LOVE ART CAR JUDGING
		The art of those who have 'no right' to be artists and yet create works that are so powerful, original and compelling that those on the cutting edge of art appreciation have hailed it as the greatest discovery yet.
		With no connection to art movements, art colleges or conventional art museums and galleries, Outsider Art is seen as a refreshing contrast to much of today's mainstream offerings.
		With specialist museums opening on both sides of the Atlantic, with an ever growing literature and an increasing body of collectors and enthusiasts, Outsider Art is here to stay.
	www.orangeshow.org /artcar_judging.html (679 words)

	PaMdora's Box: Art Car Museum
		Anyway, while Houston we did get to the Art Car Musem, not easy to find and less easy to park (is that ironic?) but definately worth it.
		This car won Judge's choice in the Houston Art Car Parade in 2003.
		As we were admiring the car, we got directions to Braford's studio, where there were lots more silverware and scrap metal creatures in progress.
	www.pamdora.com /2005/11/art-car-museum.html (221 words)

	Northpinellas: Car museum lures Dunedin Fine Art Center expert
		The replica is on loan from the Deutsche Ban Museum in Nuremberg, Germany.
		The museum, which opened in March, is adjacent to Polypack, a company that manufactures automatic packaging machinery.
		George Ann Bissett, the Fine Art Center's executive director, said she was sad when Shankweiler gave his notice.
	www.sptimes.com /2005/06/16/Northpinellas/Car_museum_lures_Dune.shtml (597 words)

	Schein-Joseph International Museum of Ceramic Art
		Tepper earned his bachelor of fine arts degree at the Kansas City Art Institute in Missouri in 1969 and his master of fine arts degree in 1971 at the University of Washington in Seattle.
		Tepper’s recent solo exhibitions include shows at Judy Ann Goldman Fine Art in Boston, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Washington, D.C., and the Art Car Museum in Houston, as well as galleries in Michigan, Missouri, and several California venues.
		Tepper's work is in the permanent collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, the Smithsonian, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Kunstmuseum in Bern, Switzerland, and the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, among many others.
	ceramicsmuseum.alfred.edu /exhibitions/tepper (388 words)

	RuBert Studios: Art Car Museum
		At the Art Car Museum in Houston, this car "Faith" was built on a 1984 Camero by David Best.
		It's covered with spoons and to drive it, the opertator has to lay on his stomach inside the thing.
		This is a paragraph of text that could go in the sidebar.
	rubertstudios.com /2005/11/art-car-museum.html (66 words)

	Art Cars
		Creative people with a little time on their hands can turn a nondescript, almost-ready-for-the-junkyard car into a mobile work of alternative art.
		There is practically no limit to the strange ways in which art cars are customized.
		Some of these sites also list art car events around the U.S. If you want to make your own art car, browse Zenzibar’s Art Car category for individual art cars’ sites, some of which give helpful hints and ideas on how they made their cars.
	www.zenzibar.com /articles/ed-1-23.htm (298 words)

	Department of Visual Arts: Arts in Houston
		Impressionists at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, surrealists at the Menil Collection, cutting edge art at the Contemporary Arts Museum-plus a fanciful Art Car Museum, mind-boggling expressions of outsider art, and the transcendent power of the Rothko Chapel.
		The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH), the Menil Collection, and the Contemporary Arts Museum (CAM) produce world-class exhibitions.
		Houston is home to alternative art spaces such as the Art Car Museum, DiverseWorks, Lawndale Art Center, the Orange Show, and Project Row Houses.
	arts.rice.edu /arts.cfm (230 words)

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