Lost art in the city

The award is just in terms of quantum and astute in circumventing the big question of restoration from a legal and practical viewpoint.

THE unprecedented RM750,000 High Court award to Datuk Syed Ahmad Jamal for infringement of his moral rights serves as a fair but unequivocally stern warning to any individual or institution who/which dares to arbitrarily deface, defile and deconstruct works of art, especially a cultural monument like Syed Ahmad’s Lunar Peaks.