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 ...

Pablo Picasso was something of a latecomer to political activism, having embraced it only after reaching his 50s. Prior to that, his sole dedication was to himself, and the belief that his genius ...

The fascination with Picasso, it seems, is bottomless. New exhibitions in London and Paris throw new light on unexplored corners of his legacy. In the new exhibition focusing on the great antiwar ...

Listen to more stories on the Noa app. In the days after October 7, the writer and translator Joanna Chen spoke with a neighbor in Israel whose children were frightened by the constant sound of ...

At the after-party for the opening of “Who’s Afraid of Jasper Johns,” an exhibit at the Tony Shafrazi Gallery curated by Swiss artist Urs Fischer and gallerist Gavin Brown, two strippers dressed as ...

This month marks the anniversary of one of the many atrocities of the last century carried out in the cause of nationalism. On Monday, April 26, 1937, less than a year after dissident Spanish generals ...

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 ...

This post is in partnership with History Today. The article below was originally published at History Today. A flight of bombers from Nazi Germany’s Condor Legion and Italy’s Aviazione Legionaria ...

The Basque town of Guernica was bustling with activity on April 26, 1937. "It was market day, and there were finally some sweets on sale once again," says Luis Iriondo Aurtenetxea, who was 14 years ...

It's a Sunday evening when I arrive in Guernica. In the pedestrianised main street, lined with bars and restaurants, locals drown the end of the weekend in a glass of rioja or the Basque white wine ...

Art of the real: Picasso attempted to show the visceral truth of the attack when he depicted it in his 1937 painting ‘Guernica’ (Getty) The Nazi aircraft appeared above Guernica in the late afternoon ...