John Sefick v. Richard Gardner

EASTERBROOK, Circuit Judge.

John Sefick creates satirical sculptures that he seeks to place in the lobbies of buildings connected to the events or persons being lampooned. Sefiek’s works combine public figures with audio tapes that deliver the point. For example, in 1979 Sefick mounted in the Richard J. Daley Civic Center a tableau of Michael Bilandic, who had recently been defeated for re-election as mayor (in part because of adverse public reaction to the City’s handling of snow removal in the winter of 1978-79), relaxing in an easy chair, with his wife Heather perched on the chair’s arm. A…