{"id":3949,"date":"2008-11-22T16:25:30","date_gmt":"2008-11-22T20:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/?p=3949"},"modified":"2008-11-22T16:25:30","modified_gmt":"2008-11-22T20:25:30","slug":"the-uns-new-art-dome-in-geneva","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/2008\/11\/the-uns-new-art-dome-in-geneva\/","title":{"rendered":"The UNs New Art Dome in Geneva"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.telegraph.co.uk\/news\/worldnews\/europe\/spain\/3449992\/Spain-in-row-over-expensive-UN-artwork.html\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/un-ceiling-0.jpg\" alt=\"Spain is embroiled in a deepening row over an expensive artwork at the UN headquarters in Geneva that is being paid for by Spanish taxpayers from the overseas aid budget.\" title=\"UN&#039;s Room XX under renovation\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spanish artist Miguel Barcelo was commissioned by the Foundation ONUART on the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to undertake the painting of the ceiling, the most extensive work of art in the history of the United Nations at the venue for the Human Rights Council. Barcelo used over one hundred tones of paint with pigments from all corners of the globe on the enormous 1500 metres squared dome and it took him more than a year to produce. The complete renovations to Room XX cost approximately 20 million Euros ($25 million)<\/p>\n<p><strong>A truly incredible sight &#8211; I hope I&#8217;ll get to visit it one day.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/un-ceiling.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Ceiling view\" class=\"imgborder\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/news.xinhuanet.com\/english\/2008-11\/20\/content_10385999.htm\">You can see pictures of the creation process here<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/11\/un-ceiling-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"The artist, Miguel Barcelo\" class=\"imgborder\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Spanish artist Miguel Barcelo was commissioned by the Foundation ONUART on the sixtieth anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights to undertake the painting of the ceiling, the most extensive work of art in the history of the United Nations at the venue for the Human Rights Council. Barcelo used over one hundred tones [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[212],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3949","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blogalog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3949"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3949\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yummy-wakame.com\/weblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}