On April 27, 1937, the London Times reported the following: “Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basques and the center of their cultural tradition, was completely destroyed yesterday afternoon by ...

In honor of the 80th anniversary of Pablo Picasso’s famous Guernica, the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid has announced that it will be hosting a major exhibition this year highlighting the artist’s ...

The fascination with Picasso, it seems, is bottomless. New exhibitions in London and Paris throw new light on unexplored corners of his legacy. In the new exhibition focusing on the great antiwar ...

A flight of bombers from Nazi Germany’s Condor Legion and Italy’s Aviazione Legionaria pummelled the Basque town Gernika for three hours on April 26, 1937. As incendiary bombs rained down on the ...

It’s so easy to draw a curtain – figuratively or literally – on the uncomfortable, the conscience pricking if you are in a position of power. But it’s impossible on both counts if you are on the ...

Pablo Picasso lived a rich life spanning the late 19th century to the end of his life in the 1970s. Through this time, countless historical events took place, applying mountains of pressure on the ...

MADRID (AFP) — Close to 80 years ago, Picasso painted Guernica in a Paris attic, a haunting work of art that has become a universal howl against the ravages of war, from 1937 Spain to 2017 Syria. The ...

MP Andrew Mitchell invoked the ghosts of Guernica in his speech on Aleppo this week. From the dead baby’s face to the figure in the fire, Picasso’s apocalypse will always outstare bloodthirsty ...

Perhaps no twentieth-century painting has captured the cruel effects of war as powerfully as Picasso's Guernica. For the first time we can understand the entire history of Guernica both as an artistic ...

An anguished woman grasping a dead child gazes above, her eyes shaped like tears. A soldier clutches a broken sword and a flower, evoking helplessness, human frailty, and a desire to end suffering and ...