2024-05-19T17:17:42-04:00 https://archinect.com/news/article/131334432/muralists-and-the-fragile-relationship-with-the-buildings-they-paint-on Alexander Walter 2015-07-07T14:50:00-04:00 >2015-07-11T21:02:05-04:00 <img src="https://archinect.gumlet.io/uploads/67/6786b90c862cb613456ad772ce0043e6?fit=crop&auto=compress%2Cformat&enlarge=true&w=1200" border="0" /><em><p>What rights does a muralist have to the wall she painted on? That's a question that echoes throughout the country right now, as muralists try to lay claim to their artwork under the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990. [...] California muralist Kent Twitchell was in a hotel room in Sausalito, Calif., when he got the call &mdash; his six-story mural of Ed Ruscha in Los Angeles had been painted over.</p></em><br /><br /><p><a href="http://archinect.com/news/tag/125093/mural" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Murals</a> &mdash;&nbsp;and the accompanying questions of ownership, copyright, vandalism &mdash;&nbsp;are an ongoing sujet in the Archinect news:</p><ul><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/131021521/detroit-issues-arrest-for-vandal-shepard-fairey" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Detroit issues arrest for "vandal" Shepard Fairey</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/81750062/muralist-kent-twitchell-on-la-s-new-mural-friendly-ordinance" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Muralist Kent Twitchell on LA's new mural-friendly ordinance</a></li><li><a href="http://archinect.com/news/article/121203889/detroit-s-struggle-to-distinguish-between-graffiti-boo-and-murals-yay" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">Detroit's struggle to distinguish between graffiti (boo!) and murals (yay!)</a></li></ul>