David Byrne, Cultural Omnivore, Raises Cycling Rack to an Art Form

David Byrne, Cultural Omnivore, Raises Cycling Rack to an Art Form
By ARIEL KAMINER
Published: August 9, 2008

When the Department of Transportation asked David Byrne to judge proposals for the city’s new bike racks, he eagerly agreed — so eagerly, in fact, that he sent in his own designs as well.

David Byrne is an installation artist, author, blogger, recording executive, photographer, film director and PowerPoint enthusiast. He’s even been known to dabble in music. But in certain New York neighborhoods he may be most visible as a bicycle rider, a lanky figure pedaling around the Lower East Side, or from Bay Ridge out to Coney Island in Brooklyn or up to the Bronx Museum of the Arts.
James Estrin/The New York Times
A man and his bike: David Byrne in Times Square with an idea both artistic and practical.

 


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