Mealey's (February 24, 2020, 12:06 PM EST) -- NEW YORK — A Second Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel on Feb. 20 upheld a New York federal judge’s determination that temporary artwork may achieve recognized stature so as to be protected from destruction by the Visual Artists Rights Act of 1990 (VARA) and that appellants who whitewashed 45 aerosol artworks willfully violated the statute (Maria Castillo, et al. v. G&M Realty L.P., et al., No. 18-538, 2nd Cir., 2020 U.S. App. LEXIS 5228)....