FAILE Wheel "Found in Dumpster"

The first FAILE wheel has been found! Someone posted a photo (more here) on the Brooklyn collective's message board stating they found it in a dumpster. Of course, this was followed up by asking the other posters how much it is worth and mentioning it may be landing on eBay soon. The thief seems to give himself away a few times, changing his story around and mentioning he would gladly issue a public apology if FAILE contacted him. Because, you know, people apologize for finding stuff all the time.

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By Jen Carlson in Arts and Events on June 3, 2009 9:34 AM

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NannyState

It's worth its weight...in wood.

Rfive

http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/art/1194899325.html

matty

Should we have a 350 post argument over what is art? I think that sounds like fun. Especially when it ends not only inconclusively but completely off topic.

thefacts

Art is anything you can get away with.

- Andy Warhol

whitecastlerock

It's better than graffiti...

spnder

Wow. What did Faile do to you?

I don't know or care what art it, but I think these are neat. And consider that they're put out for the enjoyment of the public at no cost or distress to any of you...

matty

How would the public enjoy something that was hidden in a dumpster?

matty

edit: ohhh...it was stolen. i see. well, what can you do. shrug.

matty

my small midwestern mind doesn't get it. why was this in the dumpster?

ixvnyc

If it wasn't for the hipsters, you losers wouldn't have anything to talk about. It may not be art, but at least it's something to get you to discuss art.

Armchair_warrior

true art will survive the test of time and taste. much of the modern junk people pass as art today would be forgotten in a few hundred years.

Spirit of 76

"Few hundred"? Try just "few."

firewire

this thing reminds of the wheel eddie murphy has to spin in 'the golden child' to get that special knife to kill charles dance.

"i-i-i-i-i want the knife."

i like this wheel thing for that sole reason.

GoToHell

Who cares. It was just a piece of hipster garbage.

tingo

Sure, it's not art. But as much as blogs aren't journalism. While I also fail to see the artistic merit of Faile, nothing's more annoying than armchair 'art experts' who think they're expensive mfa qualifies them to know what 'true art' is.

True art, according to the art business establishment, is as much a commodity as anything else. anything can be art if it affects people and was intended by the artist. Doesn't mean it's good though.

But this mere hype-creation under pretense of exclusivity is probably an art in itself - the art of bullshit.