Is suburban Chicagos “car kebab” going to that junkyard in the sky?
An even bigger stumbling block, locals say, is the artist’s unwillingness to budge when it comes to letting the plaza use the piece to promote the shopping center and the city of Berwyn. While Shuler sold the one-off sculpture to the plaza in 1989, he retained the copyright, meaning he can control how the piece is marketed. It’s a claim California-based Shuler denies. “It’s a work of art and of course I have the copyright — to protect its integrity — otherwise God knows what they’d do in marketing it,” Shuler said. “But no, they could have always used it to promote the plaza, and it did promote the plaza. People knew about it around the world.” “Spindle” is the centerpiece of a sculpture menagerie at Cermak Plaza, assembled by the late David Bermant, a managing partner of the development. His old BMW is the car just below the Volkswagen Beetle that tops “Spindle.” “This is there strictly to give pleasure in addition to taking care of the shopping needs of my customers,” Bermant said of
