"Guernica" is declared unpatriotic  Click for more....

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 is Picasso's Guernica painted in 1937... for more details CLICK HERE