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2 weeks agoIn Spain, a request to move Picasso's famous Guernica' to the Basque Country sparks national row
The Basque government has made the transfer of Picasso's painting a matter of regional pride, viewing it as a gesture of historical remembrance and symbolic reparation toward the Basque people.
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1 month agoBritish artist Simon Fujiwara tackles Guernica, syphilis and the death of a Japanese pornstar in Luxembourg survey exhibition
Simon Fujiwara's exhibition at Mudam Luxembourg reinterprets Picasso's Guernica, exploring themes of conflict, identity, and the aftermath of war.
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4 months agoGerman president honours victims of Nazi bombing atrocity on Guernica visit
Hundreds of civilians were killed and hundreds more injured on 26 April 1937 when planes from the German Condor Legion, operating alongside aircraft from fascist Italy, spent hours bombing Guernica on market day. Adolf Hitler had loaned the Luftwaffe unit to Gen Francisco Franco's nationalist forces to help them in their coup against the republican government, and to allow Nazi Germany's pilots to practise the blitzkrieg tactics they would later use in the second world war.
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