Response to Katherine's "Removal of Art"

The comparison of tattoo removal and painting destruction is unfair. For the simple fact that a tattoo is a marking on your own body and you have the right to your own body(Let's avoid bringing abortion into this.) While burning a famous work of art would be destroying someone else's property. Or one could argue a piece of shared property. Think about it, would you go around trying to remove other people's tattoo's?

Question: If one creates a work of art that becomes a focal point of a community's culture, who owns the art, the artist or the community?