MOTORCYCLES are many things to many people, a heady amalgam of freedom, engineering, adrenalin and style. But it’s not every day that motorcycles are considered purely as art.
That all changed in New York in 1998, when Charles Falco and Ultan Guilfoyle curated ‘The Art of the Motorcycle’ at the Guggenheim Museum. Some critics wondered what they were doing there, the bikes I mean, but not the public, who flocked in record numbers. And now Falco and Guilfoyle have teamed again to present ‘The Motorcycle: Design, Art, Desire’ at Queensland’s Gallery of Modern Art
