joanna bujes wrote:
> So first go the merciful teats of Justice and now Guernica.
>
> Joanna
>
> >http://artdaily.com/news.asp?not=11
> >
> >
> >Guernica Reproduction Covered at UN
> >
> >NEW YORK.- The "Guernica" work by Pablo Picasso at the entrance of the
> >Security Council of the United Nations has been covered with a curtain.
> >The reason for covering this work is that this is the place where
> >diplomats make statements to the press and have this work as the
> >background. The Picasso work features the horrors of war. On January 27 a
> >large blue curtain was placed to cover the work.
> >
> >Fred Eckhard, press secretary of the U.N. said: "It is an appropriate
> >background for the cameras." He was questioned as to why the work had been
> >covered.
> >
> >A diplomat stated that it would not be an appropriate background if the
> >ambassador of the United States at the U.N. John Negroponte, or Powell,
> >talk about war surrounded with women, children and animals shouting with
> >horror and showing the suffering of the bombings.
> >
> >This work is a reproduction of the Guernica that was donated by Nelson A.
> >Rockefeller to the U.N. in 1985.
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