Large-scale installation by Brooklyn artists FAILE comes to Times Square

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A large-scale art installation titled "Wishing on You," an interactive work by the Brooklyn-based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller known as FAILE, has been placed in New York\'s Times Square, Monday, Aug. 17, 2015. The public can spin a hand-carved wheel to power the sculpture\'s red-blue-and-white lights and illuminate carnival-like features including nickel arcades and glossy ads. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

NEW YORK, N.Y. – A large-scale art installation in Times Square reimagines Asian prayer wheels in the context of the district’s colorful history.

“Wishing on You” is an interactive work by the Brooklyn-based artists Patrick McNeil and Patrick Miller, who together are known as FAILE (fail).

They say the sculpture explores contemporary patterns of consumption, desire and myth-making.

It was unveiled Monday in partnership with Times Square Arts. It’ll remain on view on the Broadway Plaza until Sept. 1.

The public can spin a hand-carved wheel to power the sculpture’s red-blue-and-white lights and illuminate carnival-like features including nickel arcades and glossy ads.

FAILE’s art raises questions about the relationship to consumer culture, religious traditions and the urban environment.

The Brooklyn Museum is currently featuring the artists in an exhibition titled “FAILE: Savage/Sacred Young Minds” through Oct. 4.

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