A Tapestry About Chernobyl and the UN’s Bungled Response to the Nuclear Disaster
The “Chernobyl” tapestry by a Belarusian artist was gifted in 1991 to the United Nations in New York, five years after the cataclysmic nuclear explosion in Ukraine, which also affected Belarus and Russia. Decades later, the world is still unable to fully turn its back on nuclear power in all its forms.
The third floor of the United Nations headquarters in New York is coveted real estate for member states that have donated art to the organization.
