Back in November, officials at the University of Kentucky covered up a historic mural because a small but vocal group of students found some of the painting’s depictions offensive.
The taxpayer-funded officials have now uncensored the mural — but they will be placing “digital boards” around it to make sure no one thinks some wrong thing.
The mural, which spreads over most of a large wall in Memorial Hall, “told a story through a talented artist’s eyes within the context of her time,” University of Kentucky president Eli Capilouto wrote in a tortured essay last week, according to Inside Higher Ed.
Capilouto wants to preserve “the art as part of our history” but also add “to it to tell a more complete and sensitively rendered story of our human experience.”
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