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Providence Mayor Demands Removal Of Iryna Zarutska Mural; “Does Not Reflect Our Values”

Providence Mayor Demands Removal Of Iryna Zarutska Mural; “Does Not Reflect Our Values”

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, Leftist politicians in Providence, Rhode Island, are erasing the memory of an innocent victim to shield their failed policies on crime and immigration.  The nearly completed mural honoring Iryna Zarutska—the 23-year-old Ukrainian refugee brutally murdered on a North Carolina light rail train by a repeat offender—is being removed after pressure from Democrat leaders who called it divisive. Conservative commentator Benny Johnson broke the story, posting: “Iryna Zarustka mural in Providence, RI, is being removed following protest of it by Mayor Brett Smiley.  Iryna Zarustka mural in Providence, RI, is being removed following protest of it by Mayor Brett Smiley. The artist of the mural says owners of the business (The Dark Lady) in the building the mural is on asked that it be removed. Would they had asked if it was of George Floyd? pic.twitter.com/pytE3CTsSb — Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) March 31, 2026 Mayor Brett Smiley immediately demanded the artwork come down. His office confirmed the move, and he released a statement: “The murder of the individual depicted in this mural was a devastating …

Cesar Chavez Mural Painted Over in San Francisco After Allegations

Cesar Chavez Mural Painted Over in San Francisco After Allegations

Published by José Betancourt

A mural of Cesar Chavez in San Francisco’s Mission District was painted over this week, becoming one of the first visible public reckonings with newly surfaced allegations of sexual abuse against the labor leader. The artwork, which covered the facade of the Latin Rock Music House at 25th and York Streets, was removed Wednesday by the building’s owner, Richard Segovia, along with artist Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, according to ABC7 Eyewitness News. The decision came days after a New York Times investigation detailed allegations that Chavez abused women and girls connected to the United Farm Workers movement.  Related Articles “I did this to let everyone know,” Segovia said. “Let’s get the ball rolling.”  Gonzalez, who has painted Chavez multiple times over the past three decades, said the allegations prompted an immediate reassessment. A planned new mural featuring Chavez has already been revised to instead center labor leader Dolores Huerta, who has publicly said she was among those harmed.  The removal marks a rapid shift in how Chavez is being publicly commemorated, particularly in California, where his legacy …

San Francisco Mural of Cesar Chavez Painted Over

San Francisco Mural of Cesar Chavez Painted Over

Published by José Betancourt

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines PAINTING OVER THE CRACKS: Amid ongoing fallout over sexual abuse allegations against Cesar Chavez, a prominent mural honoring the labor and farmworker leader was painted over yesterday in San Francisco, reports ABC 7 News. The artwork had adorned the Mission District’s Latin Rock Music House, a venue that has hosted legendary Latino performers over the years. “I did this to let everyone know. Let’s get the ball rolling. Let’s start right here and get this done,” said building owner Richard Segovia. Artist Carlos “Kookie” Gonzalez, who joined Segovia in painting over the mural, added: “In light of the allegations and confirmation of them, none of this is okay.” NO STAGE FOR SPIN. Venice’s mayor, Luigi Brugnaro, made it clear on Thursday that Russia’s pavilion at the biennale will be shut down if it crosses the line into propaganda. But he stressed that the city should still be a space for dialogue and cultural exchange. Tensions have been high since Russia announced its return to …

Carol Bove Reveals Miró Mural Typically Hidden in Guggenheim’s Walls

Carol Bove Reveals Miró Mural Typically Hidden in Guggenheim’s Walls

Published by Jenni Sidey

Carol Bove‘s rotunda-filling Guggenheim Museum show in New York may be billed as a retrospective, but it’s not a solo show in the traditional sense: it also features works by a range of artists interspersed throughout. In fact, the crown jewel of the show is not a sculpture by Bove but a mural by Joan Miró that’s always on hand at the Guggenheim—even though the general public typically can’t see it. Composed of 190 ceramic tiles, the work is a 19-foot-long mural titled Alicia (1965–67) that Miró produced in collaboration with the ceramicist Josep Llorens Artigas. It’s now viewable near the ramp leading up to the second level for the first time in more than 20 years. Related Articles According to a text within the show, the mural was commissioned in 1963 by Harry F. Guggenheim, who was at the time the president of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation to pay homage to Alicia Patterson, the Newsday editor who was married to Guggenheim and died that same year. Most of the time, the mural is …

A mural of Altadena at Sidecca clothing shop symbolizes hope

A mural of Altadena at Sidecca clothing shop symbolizes hope

Published by Sam Flores

Every time Adriana Molina drives up Lake Avenue to her retro-style women’s clothing shop Sidecca in Altadena, she sees the new outdoor mural she commissioned for the store by muralist and illustrator Annie Bolding. It gives her hope. “I’m here to stay, and this mural solidified my decision to reopen my business,” said Molina on a recent winter day, sitting next to Bolding inside the boutique. “I grew up in Altadena. The community has motivated me this whole time, and I want them to drive by this mural and smile.” “ALTADENA.” The word — in big white letters, set against layers of blue — appears toward the top of the mural, on the store’s brick wall facing Lake. Above are the San Gabriel Mountains, painted a deep brown, California poppies and Mariposa Street and Lake Avenue street signs. Below are green grass, a monarch butterfly and Altadena’s Christmas Tree Lane. A bright blue house is on a multicolored striped path in the middle of the mural. Next to it, on a hiking trail, a sign …

LA Artist Judy Baca Accused of Misusing Funds For Historic Mural

LA Artist Judy Baca Accused of Misusing Funds For Historic Mural

Published by Jenni Sidey

To receive Morning Links in your inbox every weekday, sign up for our Breakfast with ARTnews newsletter. The Headlines CRACKS IN THE WALL. Ten former employees, including two managers, who worked on The Great Wall of Los Angeles public collaborative mural, allege the revered Chicano artist Judy Baca has been misusing millions of dollars in grants.She designed and leads the project, and the grants were earmarked for expanding the mural, according to an investigation by the Los Angeles Times. Workers also accuse Baca, the co-founder and artistic director of Social and Public Art Resource Center (SPARC), a non-profit that organizes the mural production,of inappropriately profiting from the center’s facilities, the sale of archives, and artwork related to the community-made mural. Baca and SPARC’s board chair have strongly denied the claims. The mural depicts the history of California “as seen through the eyes of women and minorities,” and is one of the longest of its kind in the world at 2,700 feet, earning it a spot on the National Register of Historic Places. LOUVRE STING. The chaos at the Louvre has cost its former …

Saudi Arabia Commissions Giant Mural the Size of 9 Football Fields

Saudi Arabia Commissions Giant Mural the Size of 9 Football Fields

Published by José Betancourt

Saudi Arabia commissioned Domingo Zapata to paint what’s being called the largest mural ever created—at a size, as the New York Post’s “Page Six” put it, of 540,000 square feet, or about nine football fields. The New York–based Zapata—who the Post notes “has painted stars including Kim Kardashian and Sofia Vergara, and painted with the last pope”—said he has been given “a blank check” to create a work with a team of some 100 collaborating artists over the course of four to six years. Related Articles Zapata called his future work “the Middle Eastern version of the Sistine Chapel” and as reported by Artnet News, said, “As an artist, having the freedom to create without boundaries is incredibly rare. That’s why I reference the Sistine Chapel—not to compare myself to Michelangelo, but to evoke that moment in history when an artist was entrusted with complete creative freedom to interpret humanity as it was understood at the time.” He continued: “The opportunity to contribute to a project of this scale, and to create something that may endure …

Leftist Vandals Again Hit Chicago Mural Of Murdered Ukrainian Iryna

Leftist Vandals Again Hit Chicago Mural Of Murdered Ukrainian Iryna

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by Steve Watson via Modernity.news, The Chicago mural honoring Iryna Zarutska, the innocent Ukrainian refugee stabbed to death in cold blood on a Charlotte light rail train, has been vandalized again—just two weeks after its unveiling. This latest defacement underscores how deranged leftists will go to any lengths to suppress reminders of the deadly fallout from their soft-on-crime policies, even when the victim is a refugee who fled war. The mural, painted on a three-story brick building at West Montrose and North Western avenues in Chicago’s North Center neighborhood, depicts Zarutska’s face gazing solemnly, a stark memorial to her senseless murder last August by repeat offender Decarlos Brown Jr. ?#BREAKING: The Chicago mural of Iryna Zarutska has been defaced for a 2nd time in just 14 days. I don’t understand how anyone could do this… You have to be a complete sociopath to want to vandalize a mural of an innocent refugee who was m*rdered in cold blood/ Disgusting. pic.twitter.com/VNzaGz22dl — Matt Van Swol (@mattvanswol) February 11, 2026 The artwork was defaced for the …

South Carolina Todd Atkinson Wins 8K in Copyright Infringement Case

South Carolina Todd Atkinson Wins $158K in Copyright Infringement Case

Published by José Betancourt

A judge in U.S. District Court in South Carolina has awarded local artist Todd Atkinson $158,400 in a copyright infringement case against artist Chan Shepherd and the owner of the building on which Atkinson’s mural was originally painted. Atkinson painted the mural, of a train and a water tank, with the words “Water Tank” in a red banner, on the side of a building in Clover, S.C., in the summer of 1982, according to court documents. He filed a copyright certificate on Dec. 11, 2023, and was granted copyright on Mar. 7, 2024. For many years, the building, located at 111 N. Main Street, was home to a bar called the Water Tank; according to Google, it is temporarily closed. Related Articles In a letter dated Oct. 12, 2023, addressed to Justin L. McFalls (and McFalls’s business, Queen City Plumbing), Atkinson’s lawyer, Alex Long, accuses McFalls of hiring another artist, Chan Shepherd, to paint a similar version of the Water Tank mural over the original on the building that McFalls recently purchased. “My understanding is …

Leonardo da Vinci Mural Will Be On View in Milan During Olympics

Leonardo da Vinci Mural Will Be On View in Milan During Olympics

Published by Jenni Sidey

When the Winter Olympics begin in Italy next month, a mural by Leonardo da Vinci in the midst of restoration will go on view for five weeks staring February 7. That means visitors to Milan not preoccupied with sports like figure-skating and luge can set their eyes on an unfinished painting on the ceiling and a wall of Sforza Castle by a master for the ages. As reported by Artnet News, “Visitors will be allowed to climb the towering 20-foot scaffold inside the castle’s Sala delle Asse to view conservators at work on Leonardo’s mural, after which it will be sealed off again for another 18 months, making this limited public access a rare opportunity to see it up close mid-restoration.” Long covered with plaster, the painting was begun shortly before Milan was seized by France in 1499. After it was scrapped, “for the next several centuries, the castle was used for military purposes and the walls of the Sala delle Asse were painted over, the memory of the painting lost,” according to Artnet News. …