University of Kentucky president Eli Capilouto announced Nov. 22 the Board of Trustees has set aside funds to make university spaces more inclusive, including removing and relocating the ...

Lexingtonians are no strangers to the ongoing controversy around a certain mural on the University of Kentucky's campus. In recent years, the campaign to remove the 1934 fresco in Memorial Hall ...

Artist Karyn Olivier places part of her piece “Witness” on the domed ceiling of the atrium at Memorial Hall at the University of Kentucky on Aug. 15. (Mark Cornelison/UKphoto) By Nick Anderson ...

Part of that conversation touched on a 40-foot-long fresco in Memorial Hall, a central building. Painted in 1934 by Ann Rice O’Hanlon, the fresco seeks to depict Kentucky’s historical ...

The roughly 40-foot mural at the University of Kentucky sprawls across a wall in a building, Memorial Hall, which is used for classes, lectures and other public events.

Wendell and Tanya Berry filed a lawsuit in 2020 to stop the removal of the controversial mural located in Memorial Hall at UK. A judge dismissed the case on Monday, but said the mural must stay in ...

Responding to complaints by black students, the University of Kentucky has decided to cover up a fresco on the campus's Memorial Hall that depicts black people as slaves and servants, ...

Though I willingly would do so if it were possible, I cannot understand the University of Kentucky’s decision to hide Ann Rice O’Hanlon’s fresco in Memorial Hall. The reason given is only ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (LEX 18) — University of Kentucky President Eli Capilouto has announced in an email to students on Friday that a mural in Memorial Hall will be removed.