Bike racks can also be public art
 

There's no reason public art can't also be public utility:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/offbeat...rack-art_N.htm

As long as they don't look TOO much like art, to the point that some overzealous cop gives you a ticket or bike cut-off for locking inappropriately to public sculpture...

I much more prefer this one:
http://www.dero.com/products/bike_bi...bike_rack.html

Simple, cool, reminds people that bikes belong and when cyclist do it right, we can lock 4 bikes to it.

We've got that one at one of our neighborhood pools. I've never seen a bike locked to it or anywhere near it. Mostly kids ride to that pool and just lay their bikes down on the ground.

public art can also be a bike rack

I'm a big fan of the "Three Rivers Bike Racks" Bike Pgh has installed all of the place in Pittsburgh.

http://bike-pgh.org/campaigns/three-rivers-bike-racks/

We've been doing something similar up here in Toronto:

http://www.ibiketo.ca/node/2155

How much money did Wall-To-Wall Studios get from the city to rip off Lufthansa's logo?

http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2350/...fcdc65.jpg?v=0

http://bike-pgh.org/wp-content/uploa...rack_small.jpg

-Kurt

Ellwood Thompson's organic and natural foods store in Richmond VA is having a design contest, for new bike racks for their stores:

http://www.vabike.org/designers-wanted-ellwood-thompsons-sponsors-bike-rack-design-contest/

We'd love to get comments at the above article, with links to interesting stuff on the web about public art bike racks.