A political dispute has broken out over a possible loan of Picasso‘s Guernica, an icon of modern art that has not left Madrid in more than 40 years. Madrid’s regional leader, Díaz Ayuso, meanwhile, ...

Before Mariupol, before Gaza, before Hiroshima and Nagasaki and Dresden and the Blitz, there was Guernica. The little Basque town in northern Spain was once the byword for state cruelty following the ...

The artwork depicts the bombing of a Basque village in 1937. Now, the relocation debate is raising questions about how to ...

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 ...

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 ...

Mass resignations at the literary magazine following the publication of a piece by an Israeli peace activist reveal a part of the left that cannot countenance historical nuance. Mass resignations at ...

When it comes to art against tyranny, no work is more seared into our consciousness than Guernica, Pablo Picasso’s dark, howling mural against fascist terror ...

A visitor stands in front of Pablo Picasso's "Guernica" (1937) and studies the work, which is held at the Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía in Madrid, Spain. (photo by Denis Doyle/Getty Images ...

Forty years after the 1937 masterpiece returned to Madrid from its Franco-era exile in New York, it is again embroiled in politics Every September, Spain celebrates one of the most symbolic moments of ...