From: Montyneill-AT-aol.com
Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 20:31:46 EST
Subject: AUT: Fwd: Guernica covered at UN



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> > 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=A0 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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