After removing the top two cars, the whole sculpture was torn apart. Dustin Shuler’s Spindle is dead. This is the saddest day in public art ever. I can’t think of anything else to say.
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I can’t believe it. I thought the whole ebay thing was a hoax, or publicity. They actually destroyed it with a backhoe in the middle of the night. To be replaced with a Walgreens. Because we don’t have enough of those. Amazing.
The Ebay thing was bizarre. I contacted the seller and the response he gave me was flip, unprofessional and didn’t answer my question at all. I still doubt that the Ebay auction was actually legitimate, and if it was, it was handled in a way that I believe was negligent and possibly intended to discourage or confuse potential buyers.
[...] Video of wrecking crew taking down Justin Shuler’s car-kabob sculpture, Spindle, in Berwyn, Illinois—under the cover of darkness—to make way for a fucking Walgreens. [...]
The artist’s name is DUSTIN, not Justin.
And here is a link to his galleries page on him-
http://www.correiagallery.com/artists/shuler/
How awsome would it have been to get the Spindle for Pedro. We could have put it on the city land opposite from the Welcome Park
Ries – you should refer the correction to C-Monster. That’s not a comment, it’s a trackback.
I don’t link to gallery sites for artists here (because the links die/change sometimes), I generally only link to either personal sites or Wikipedia pages when referencing an artist. Dustin should probably have a Wikipedia page, given that the Spindle has a page of its own.