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

“A powerful defense of Guernica. . . was almost immediately marshaled by the artists, writers, and poets of the Cahiers d’Art circle,” Herschel B. Chipp, one of the painting’s prominent ...

The literary magazine Guernica ’s decision to retract an essay about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict reveals much about how the war is hardening human sentiment.

By April 1937, Guernica was the last pro-Republican community standing between Franco's forces and the major city of Bilbao. With German and Italian air support, Franco moved to take the town.

These are tough days for Guernica. Not Picasso’s painting, which, last we checked, is on view at the Reina Sofia museum at Madrid. The magazine that takes its name, though, is tearing itself apart ...

Ad Policy. The homepage for Guernica.. My view from the West Coast this week takes me east, to New York City, where a group of supposedly left-wing, humanistic, intellectually engaged editors at ...

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.

The Junkers Ju 52 went from connecting cities to bombing Guernica. Here’s how this strange aircraft rewrote its destiny. Dark Skies. WW2’s Most Bizarre Bomber – The Trimotor That Burned ...

The publisher of Guernica pulled the essay; within a month, Jina Moore Ngarambe, the editor in chief, resigned. Today on The Kicker: a conversation with Jina about what she learned from the experience ...

Redwood City sculpture artist Fernando Escartiz’s latest Art Kiosk installation in Redwood City reimagines Pablo Picasso’s Guernica. Photo courtesy of Jennifer von Stauffenberg.