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Give us Guernica: Basque leaders step up call for transfer of Picasso's famous painting to Bilbao

For decades, the Basque government has been calling for Guernica to be loaned to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, but Madrid's Reina Sofía museum has just published a 16-page report that says the Picasso masterpiece is too delicate and fragile to be moved, no matter what the occasion.

Euronews

Bullfights, ballet and hot jazz: inside Picasso’s scandalous theatre of sex and death

Famed for his cubist portraits, the Spanish genius also created costumes for the Ballet Russes and loved the intensity of bullfights. A new exhibition explores the dramatic side of an uncompromising artist

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Israel’s leaders committed genocide in Gaza and must pay for it. Their political and media allies must too

This unprecedented slaughter could not have happened without powerful cheerleaders. Hold them to account, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones

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Reading Picasso’s Guernica like a comic strip offers a new way to understand the story it is telling

Guernica by Pablo Picasso is one of the most famous artworks of the 20th century. The painting is huge and violent, and when it was first displayed in 1937 it was considered absolutely groundbreaking.

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‘This could wreck the area’: anger at new Guggenheim in Spanish nature reserve

Environmental groups are among those appalled at plans to expand into Guernica and the Urdaibai reserve – but others welcome it

The Guardian - UK

Guernica's Recovery From Ruin

The bombing of a Basque town during the Spanish Civil War gave rise to art—and cultural resilience.

Reason

Amid Israel’s onslaught of Gaza, Spain’s leader shows empathy for Palestine

Spain, which has long supported Palestine in the ongoing conflict, has upset Israel with its consistent condemnation.

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Pello Bilbao ready to attack on home roads of the Tour de France Grand Départ

Hailing from nearby Guernica, the Bahrain Victorious rider will be looking to spring a surprise on stage one on Saturday

Cycling Weekly

Picasso's 'Guernica' still relevant today

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 launched a coup d'état against a democratically elected coalition government, German and Italian airplanes bombed…

Bangkok Post

Picasso pilgrimage: a Spanish art trail marking 50 years since his death

From Málaga to Madrid, there’s a fiesta of special exhibitions this year in the places where the artist lived and worked

The Guardian - UK

Invoking Guernica bombing, Ukraine's Zelenskiy urges Spain to force Russia out

Likening the Russian bombing of his country to the bloody air raid on the Spanish town of Guernica by Nazi Germany, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy told Spain's parliament on Tuesday the West must do more to force Moscow to abandon its invasion.

Reuters

Trudy Rubin: An elegy for Mariupol, where I walked six weeks ago. Now razed by Russian bombs

I still don’t know if Alina has made it out of Mariupol, or whether she is alive.

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Iconic Tapestry of Picasso's 'Guernica' Is Back at the UN

The iconic tapestry of Pablo Picasso’s “Guernica,” which is considered by numerous art critics as perhaps the most powerful anti-war painting in history, returned to its place of honor at the United Nations on Saturday after a year-long absence that angered and dismayed many UN diplomats and staff. The tapestry…

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