In response to a display of guerrilla knitting attached to a public sculpture, the city of Berkeley CA is laying down the law.
Berkeley City’s Civic Arts Coordinator Mary Ann Merker visited a nearby knitting and crafts studio yesterday to let them know that altering or defacing a piece of public art constitutes a violation of Federal law.
Federal? Really? Personally, I’d challenge that in court. (If I had infinite funds and time, of course.) I can see it being a violation of a city ordinance, but unless the Federal government bought the sculpture, I don’t see how it could be a “violation of Federal law.”