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 ...

Guernica, the painting, is such an abstract depiction of civilian suffering that visitors have no problem posing in front of it. Guernica, the town, is a center of Basque culture.

However late Picasso's political awakening may have come, its catalyst was the Spanish Civil War, and the singular atrocity that defined it-the bombing of the Basque city Guernica, to which ...

Guernica, bombed by the German legion Condor, 1937. | brandstaetter images/GettyImages. Picasso’s painting depicts the bombing of the Basque town of Guernica on April 26, 1937.

“Rethinking Guernica” offers a helpful, visuals-based timeline that clearly traces not only the painting’s movement but also the different political discourses that arose around it.

When a 25-foot tapestry replica of Pablo Picasso’s antiwar painting “Guernica” was removed from the United Nations by its owner a year ago after more than three decades there, diplomats ...

UNITED NATIONS — As Secretary of State Colin L. Powell presented evidence to help U.N. ambassadors decide whether or not to go to war against Iraq, there was one important thing they did not see ...