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At the UN, the exhibition “Animals for Social Justice”: art and animal rights in the spotlight.

Entering the United Nations headquarters, in the area between First Avenue and the East River, among diplomats, security badges, and the usual world-language traffic, one encounters a silent procession of animals. Not real animals, of course, but tigers photographed as climate refugees, elephants transformed into legal symbols, oceans projected onto the walls as if the planet itself were asking for a voice.

Between art, activism, and diplomacy

“Animals for Social Justice,” the new exhibition installed in the main entrance of the UN, possesses that typically contemporary ambition of fusing art, activism, and moral diplomacy into a single emotional language. It also exposes a work by Banksy and an homage to researcher Jane Goodall, who disappeared last year; it stems from the idea—now central among international elites—that the issue of animals is no longer separable from politics, economics, or even global security.

The contrast is inevitable. Just a few meters from the halls where governments argue over wars, sanctions, and borders, images flow dedicated to the fragility of ecosystems and the suffering of species.

The global elite and the need for redemption

The UN, an institution often accused of impotence in the face of human conflicts, attempts here a different form of persuasion: not the treaty, but sensitivity. Some visitors pass casually, dragging diplomatic trolleys towards elevators. Others pause before the multimedia screens with the same absorbed concentration seen in the museums of Chelsea or the MoMA.

Fundamentally, the exhibition speaks primarily to them: to the global urban elite who considers climate change, biodiversity, and animal rights not separate issues, but chapters of the same moral narrative of the 21st century. And New York, a city where cynicism always coexists with an inexhaustible need for redemption, seems the perfect place to host all of this. The exhibition, inaugurated last week, will remain open until August 25th.

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https://www.agi.it/estero/video/2026-05-27/onu-mostra-diritti-animali-37265716/