The art/craft distinction is less interesting to me than the business of curating a bicycle based art show. A more practical question I would want to answer early on is what kind of artifact is to be displayed. There seem to be three largely discrete groups (though there is some cross over): first; bicycles and components themselves; second, art inspired by bicycles and bike riding (fine art such as the painting of the Mariposa, bike & component ads, racing posters, e.g.); third, art that uses bicycle parts or imagery (Picasso, Duchamps and many others). There is also bicycle ballet & acrobatics, and videos of people like Danny MacAskill at work could certainly be considered art.

The recent MAD bicycle show in NY focused tightly on six builders of custom bikes and their products, and was stronger for limiting the scope in this way.