Starting at 5 p.m., art cars, including Philo Northrup's Truck 'n Flux, Ron Dolce's Marble Madness, and Harrod Blank's Camera Van-will be available for your inspection in the museum's Sculpture Garden.The automobile is many things to many people. For some, the auto offers speed, exhilaration and escape; for others, it's an object announcing social standing; and others see the car as a mobilized canvas for self-expression. Tonight's program explores how we relate to those rolling objects of adoration. In Kelley Baker's hilarious Stolen Toyota (1993, 7:30 mins, 16mm), friends recount the dizzying experience of finding your car inexplicably gone from the curb. Danny Plotnick's gritty Fat City Death Sled (1987, 8:30 mins, 16mm) relates freakish encounters with pedestrians, drivers, and everything in between. Rick Tejada-Flores's Spreading Beauty Wherever I Go (1994, 20 mins, 3/4" video) traces the creation of one spectacular low-rider from New Mexico and how the local community finished the car after the designer's death. Harrod Blank, who introduced the art car to the world with his moveable epic Wild Wheels, is back with a sneak preview of Driving the Dream (26 mins, 3/4" video), an in-depth look at the personalities behind these four-wheeled works of art. Focusing on Gene Pool's Grass Bus, Harry Sperl's Hamburger Motorcycle, Father Time's Patriotic Bus, and Blank's own Camera Van, we see the passions that drive these creations. Driving the Dream is about a public art form in which the artist traffics in obsessions of a very moving kind.-Steve Seid