The Gichigamiin Indigenous Nations Museum in Evanston, Illinois, had commissioned Anishinaabe and Korean-American artist Jamie John to paint an outdoor mural honoring Anishinaabe culture. During the work’s installation, John used pro-Palestine phrases and symbols to create the mural’s “doodle grid,” a common mural scaling technique in which an underpainting serves as reference for the final work. These included “Free the Land,” “Protect Immigrants,” “Fund Art, Not Weapons,” “Feed Gaza,” and “From the River to the Sea,” as well as images of watermelons, olive branches, and doves. In previous mural commissions, the artist has used similar motifs to create doodle grids, which are then covered up by the finished mural. The project was scheduled to be completed by August 18, but in response to the content in the mural’s base illustrations — which John was in the middle of covering with an opaque topcoat — the museum ended its contract and subsequently painted over the work in progress. T...