Warmongering and Reality

february 6, 2003  10:07 am
Warmongering and Reality
A blue curtain now covers the reproduction of Picasso's monumental anti-war painting, Guernica, that hangs in the United Nations, the Village Voice's Alisa Solomon reports. "How disconcerting, how off-message, it would be after all, if Secretary of State Colin Powell or UN ambassador John Negroponte had to beat the war drums in front of Picasso's wrenching images of women and children writhing in cubistic dismemberment under a bombing campaign," she writes.