Like Spiders Spinning Light

In 2022, I wrote an essay that investigates Jaqueline de la Baume Durrbach's tapestry copy of Guernica, which was commissioned by Nelson A. Rockefeller after Picasso refused to sell him the original painting. I became interested in the tapestry after Rockefeller's grandson ordered its removal from the walls of the United Nations in New York without offering an explanation why. 

Jacqueline de la Baume Dürrbach, Guernica tapestry
Atelier Cavalaire, Var, France, 1973
Courtesy of Archives de Marseille, 82 Fi
Photo: Marcel Coen