perhaps the problem is that Negroponte supports those who bombed Guernica?
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Jim Devine [EMAIL PROTECTED] & http://bellarmine.lmu.edu/~jdevine
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> From: Ralph Johansen [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Monday, February 03, 2003 12:02 PM
> To: Ralph Johansen
> Subject: [PEN-L:34320] Art notes from all over
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> http://artdaily.com/news.asp?not=11
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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 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.
>
>
