NEW YORK, May 17: International super star Bono of U-2 visited New York’s Metropolitan Museum to meet Pakistan’s miniature artist Imran Qureshi on Wednesday.

Bono visited the museum’s roof garden, where Imran’s superb “blood soaked” mural rests to get acquainted with the artist.

He then laid himself down on the mural with his head on Imran’s shoulder gazing at the clear blue beautiful sky. After a hectic photo session Bono spent hours with Imran talking about his vision of world free of “murder and mayhem.

Imran says the mural represents his emotional ‘response to violence occurring across the globe in recent decades and his earnest hope for regeneration and lasting peace in the aftermath of man-made disasters.”

Imran told Dawn “Bono clearly understood his message in his rendering of the mural “we talked about everything under the sun, and he stayed with me for over two hours and we toured other parts of the Met Museum”.

Bono was thrilled to learn that in 1990s, when U2’s classic hit album “Joshua Tree “was released, the students from National College of Art, Lahore, led by Raza Ali Dada and others played their rendering of group’s songs from the album at the college auditorium.

Besides a plethora of accolades, Imran reportedly has the singular honour of being first South Asian artist whose name now hangs in a banner at the front façade of the Metropolitan Museum.