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Date: 1995 - 2005 [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Region: North America [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|{location3}]]
Subject: Political/Economic/Social Opinion [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Medium: Painting [[:Category:|]] [[:Category:|]]
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Confronting Bodies: United Nations Officials
Dates of Action: February 5, 2003
Location: Security Counsel Meeting Room, United Nations, New York
Description of Artwork: Guerinica is a graphic Modern Art depiction of the atrocities and ravages of war.
The Incident: Just prior to when Secretary of State Collin Powell delivered a speech to the Security Counsel, where he beseeched the U.N. that war with Iraq was a neccessary international action, U.N. officials covered the Guerinca mural with a curtain.
Results of Incident: No action has been taken against the covering of the mural.
Source: NCAC based on an article in art-for-a-change.com [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]] [[Category:]]
