A reproduction of the "Guernica [3]" work by Pablo Picasso, which depicts the horrors of war [4], has been covered with a curtain at the United Nations [5] because it is apparently an "inappropriate" backdrop for discussions of the pending war with Iraq: "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."