NEW YORK—The musician, installation artist, and art-world fixture David Byrne has a new sort of art project in New York. On Friday the Department of Transportation installed nine bicycle racks he designed for locations around the city, reports the New York Times.

The nine custom designs include "The Jersey," in the shape of a car, installed near the Lincoln Tunnel; "Mudflap Tammy," modeled after a pin-up girl, near Times Square; and "The MoMA," a red, abstract design installed outside the museum.

Byrne, a longtime advocate for cyclists and an avid rider himself, was approached by the department to judge a competition for new racks to be installed throughout the city. He agreed readily and sent in his own designs as well. They weren't included in the competition, which is still ongoing, but the city offered to install them, if he could have them made.

His gallery, Pace/MacGill, agreed to have the nine designs manufactured in exchange for the right to sell replicas of them at a later date. According to Marc Glimcher, president of PaceWildenstein, they'll go for about $10,000 to $20,000 each, which may make some buyers think twice about using them for their intended purpose.

Said Byrne: “Danielle, my studio manager, kept asking the question — ‘Well, David, these are practical, how can they be sold as art?’ I didn’t have a good answer for that.”

Byrne's racks will be on display for a year.