ART

Peace Painting Continues: More than 100 Greek and Turkish Cypriot artists in Nicosia, Cyprus, resumed work Sunday on two halves of a giant painting calling for peace that they plan to stretch 500 yards across the buffer zone dividing the island. The two groups continued to work on their respective sides of the dividing line after Turkish Cypriot authorities refused to allow the Turkish Cypriot painters to join their Greek Cypriot colleagues. The canvases include pictures of doves and olive branches and multicolored slogans declaring: “No More Violence,” “Cyprus a Common Future,” “Make Love Not War,” and “Yes to Peace.” The project began Jan. 21. The U.N.-patrolled zone has divided Nicosia and the rest of the island since a 1974 Turkish invasion resulted in partition.