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.

Picasso’s “Guernica” has long been called to speak during wartime. Our critic visited Spain to take its measure.

For decades, Picasso scholars have assumed that the artist’s loyal friend Zervos had single-handedly rescued Guernica’s reputation by publishing a special “summer” issue of Cahiers d’Art ...

Born from fire and fear, Guernica remains one of the most chilling anti-war statements in history. Canadian Indigenous leader ...

MADRID — “No foto!” was long the refrain from guards at the Reina Sofía museum in Madrid if a visitor dared to attempt to take a picture of “Guernica,” Pablo Picasso’s 1937 anti-war ...

The Reina Sofía museum in Madrid has lifted its ban on photographing “Guernica,” saying it hopes to enhance the experience for those viewing the antiwar painting. By Francheska Melendez and ...

Guernica, the painting, is such an abstract depiction of civilian suffering that visitors have no problem posing in front of it. ... Steer's report shocked Picasso, ...