Comparing 9/11 to Guernica is somewhat unfair. Picasso, after all, didn't have to compete with CNN. In the era of 24-hour instant news, the arts don't have the same opportunity to shape our ...

On 26 April, 1937, during the Spanish Civil War, the Basque town of Guernica was bombed for three hours by Hitler's Luftwaffe and Italian fascist planes, leaving more than 250 civilians dead. The ...

Gaza-Guernica poster. In 1937, British journalist George Steer wrote this account of the bombing of Guernica for the Times: Guernica, the most ancient town of the Basques and the centre of their ...

When Guernica Came to Town. In 1938, one of Picasso's most famous paintings was rolled up and taken to places previously untouched by art - even car showrooms ...

The bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War gave rise to art—and cultural resilience. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ways to ...

In the days after the firebombing of the undefended Basque town of Guernica, on April 26, 1937, Spain’s embattled government drew attention to what was then an unprecedented atrocity, the result ...

Guernica, by Dave Boling, Bloomsbury, 367 pages, $26. Guernica paints tale of loss in town targeted by Germans. December 28, 2008 at 2:25 a.m.

A group of chocolatiers in Spain's Basque Country are creating a version of "Guernica", Pablo Picasso's masterpiece representing the bombing of a small Basque town in 1937, to showcase their ...

Daniel Henninger’s comparison of Aleppo and Sarajevo is very apt (“Aleppo Is Obama’s Sarajevo,” Wonder Land, Oct. 6). The present Syrian civil war has a striking similarity to the Spanish ...