As part of Lance Armstrong’s STAGES art show at Deitch Projects, a bike community center, WNW Space, has taken over Trackstar. Before it turns back to a track bike shop this weekend, the space will host a discussion and demonstration about stealing bikes. Read more »
Over the weekend, Sotheby’s auctioned off the half dozen artist-styled road bikes Lance Armstrong has been racing this year. Part of an awareness effort for the STAGES art show now on view at Deitch Projects, the Trek bike sale brought in more than $1.2 million for the cyclist’s cancer-fighting efforts. Read more »
All types of two-wheelers have taken over The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum for “Bike Rides: The Exhibition.” Curated with the assistance of musical bike advocate David Byrne, the mixed media show features working bicycles, both functional and artistic, as well as pedal-inspired pieces by Lance Armstrong, Bamboo Bike Studio, Tom Sachs, Puerto Rico Schwinn Club and Cai Guo-Qiang among others. The Ridgefield, Connecticut exhibition will remain on display through January 17 to “emphasize the diverse use and function of these man–powered machines that is present in different societies.” Read more »
World champion cyclist and art patron Lance Armstrong tweets about the downside of racing: random drug testing. Just like parolees!
Combining two of life’s greatest joys, bicycling and art, Lance Armstrong’s Stages exhibition opened at the Emmanuel Perrotin gallery in Paris last week. On view through August 8th, the benefit show for the Lance Armstrong Foundation features commissioned work from the “world’s most accomplished and promising international artists.” The selection of 16 artists, all but two of them male, was tasked with creating new work with some type of cancerous connection. Read more »
With the Tour de France underway, Trek offers an overview of Lance Armstrong’s sextuplet of artist customized bicycles. Along with more detailed views of the rolling canvases by KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf, Marc Newson, comes a closer look at the most recent bikes stylized by Japanese artist Yoshitomo Nara and shark cutter Damien Hirst. Read more »
While we hoped Damien Hirst was crafting Lance Armstrong a racing bicycle adorned with actual dead sharks and lambs, the animal cutting artist took a slightly more animal-sensitive approach, styling the bike with a butterfly wing motif reminiscent of the stained glass window designs he once crafted from the insects’ wings. Here’s a sneak peek at the Trek Madone that Armstrong will race later this month in the Tour de France, after which it goes to auction for the pro cyclist’s anti-cancer charity, along with rides customized by KAWS, Shepard Fairey, Kenny Scharf, Marc Newson, and NARA.
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Adding to his stable of artist customized bicycles by the likes of Shepard Fairey and Kenny Scharf, Lance Armstrong rode a new Trek time trial bike designed by Marc Newson for Saturday’s start to the Tour de France. Later in the stage race, the pro twittering cyclist will also be riding bikes customized by Yoshitomo Nara and Damien Hirst to help draw more attention to STAGES, the anti-cancer art show opening in the midst of the Tour at the Galerie Emmanuel Perrotin in Paris on July 16th.
Although he’s just begun riding the Tour de France, pro cyclist Lance Armstrong found time for an impassioned tweet against the vandalism of illegal paintings by millionaire street artist Banksy: “Quit shooting paintball guns at the Banksy please! http://tinyurl.com/m555ba.” Could a third Banksy attack be the key for competitors to throw the seven-time champion off the road to his eighth win? |@lancearmstrong|
Lee Crider, the dumb thief who stole Lance Armstrong’s $10k bicycle earlier this year and fenced it for just $200, is facing up to three years in prison when he’s sentenced on Monday. 40-year-old Dung Hoang Le who bought the stolen Trek time trial bike was sentenced to 90 days in jail. |ESPN|
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