Picasso's anti-war tapestry Guernica returns to the U.N.
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Pablo Picasso's powerful anti-war artwork "Guernica," removed from U.N. headquarters in New York in February 2021, was returned to the wall outside the U.N. Security Council on Saturday - as a long-term loan by Nelson A. Rockefeller, Jr., whose family has been the longtime steward of the tapestry.
"The Guernica tapestry with its probing symbolism – its depiction of horrific aspects of human nature - wrestles with the cruelty, darkness, and also a seed of hope within humanity" Rockefeller said about the artwork named after the city in Spain that was bombed by the Nazis during the Spanish Civil War.
The U.N. said that the tapestry would donated to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, which will "handle coordinating its display at other venues in the United States and across the globe."
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