Quebec-based artist Sam Kerson has lost his appeal to remove panels concealing controversial anti-slavery murals he painted at Vermont Law School.
is protected by the federal Visual Artists Rights Act, which was enacted"to protect artists against modifications and destruction that are prejudicial to their honor or reputation," his lawyer, Steven Hyman had said.
He said the covering of the artwork for the purpose of preventing people from viewing it is a modification and that Kerson"must suffer the indignity and humiliation of having a panel put over his art." But the school’s lawyer, Justin Barnard, argued that covering the artwork with a wood frame that doesn’t touch the painting and is fixed to the wall is not a modification.The circuit court, in agreeing with the lower court judge, added that noting in its decision"precludes the parties from identifying a way to extricate the murals" so as to preserve them as objects of art"in a manner agreeable to all.
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