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In January 2003, Colin Powell stood before reporters at a press conference at the United Nations to discuss the United States' decision to make war with Iraq.
Behind him, a blue curtain covered a tapestry copy of Pablo Picasso's monumental anti-war epic "Guernica," a jarring 26-foot- wide painting. The tapestry copy of the 1937 original has hung in that spot near the entrance to the Security Council room since 1985. Commissioned by Nelson Rockefeller, the tapestry was the next-best thing to the original, which hangs in Picasso's native Spain.See the full content of this document
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Maine Artists' Works Bear the Weight of War
The blue curtain covered the tapestry, we were told, to provide a better backdrop for the television cameras that were covering Powell's war-making argument. But there were whispers that the curtain was hung at the request of the Bush administration t...
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