A disagreement over one piece of art became a more wide-ranging debate common when the issue is public art: freedom of expression versus the character of the community.

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Robert M. O’Neil, a free-speech expert at the University of Virginia, agreed that displaying Ms. Shvarts’s artwork was about freedom of expression.