UNITED NATIONS - Spain's Miquel Barcelo creates controversial UN artwork
Posted on November 20, 2008 at 6:00 PM.
Miquel Barcelo, one of Spain's leading contemporary artists, has turned the dome of the chamber into a dazzling cave, complete with stalactites, in every imaginable color. Barcelo, from the Spanish island of Majorca, worked on the project for two years with 20 assistants, using hundreds of tons of paint. The chamber was inaugurated by the King and Queen of Spain, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, the prime ministers of Spain and Turkey, Swiss president and the spiky-haired artist.
New UN art work raises controversy (Reuters)
That's is alot of money for Barcelo's very cheezy drug-induced art that should have been spent on people who really need aid.