How the pioneering television broadcast of the 1937 Coronation procession led the way for the biggest outside broadcast yet attempted - the Coronation of Elizabeth II in 1953. The Coronation of ...

Ramon Casas, Portrait of Pablo Picasso (1900); oil on canvas, 69 × 44,5 cm, Museu Nacional d'Art de Catalunya The Spanish Civil War and the bombing of Guernica marked him deeply. Guernica, an immense ...

Plans to establish a new Guggenheim Museum outpost in Guernica and the Urdaibai biosphere reserve in Spain have ignited controversy. While supporters argue that the development could rejuvenate ...

According to Strauss & Co, “1967 was the year that Picasso lost his studio in Paris on the Rue des Grands-Augustins where he had painted Guernica (1937).” “That year, Roland Penrose ...

Plans to establish a new Guggenheim Museum outpost in Guernica and the Urdaibai biosphere reserve in Spain have ignited ...

The bombing took place on 26 April 1937. On 1 May, Picasso made the first sketches of what was to become the epic-scaled painting, Guernica. Picasso had been invited earlier that year by the ...

When most people think of the artist Jackson Pollock, what comes to mind are his gestural, abstract drip paintings, which are almost synonymous with the male-dominated postwar New York art scene.

As Preston explains, Guernica was a small but culturally important Basque town. It was essentially defenceless and, in particular, had no air defences. A crowded market day (April 26, 1937) was chosen ...

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