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Articles for Guernica

After a writer expressed sympathy for Israelis in an essay, all hell broke loose at a literary journal
9 months, 1 week ago

After a writer expressed sympathy for Israelis in an essay, all hell broke loose at a literary journal

LA Times  

Israeli women May, left, and Lilach comfort each other in January as they visit the marker for Tifret Lapidot, their friend who was killed on Oct. 7 at the Nova music festival. On X, Guernica’s former fiction editor, Ishita Marwah, slammed Chen’s essay as a “rank piece of genocide apologia” and condemned Guernica as “a pillar of eugenicist white colonialism …

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His grandfather was Pablo Picasso: Bernard Ruiz-Picasso
1 year, 8 months ago

His grandfather was Pablo Picasso: Bernard Ruiz-Picasso

Hindustan Times  

When artist Pablo Picasso died on April 8, 1973, he left a legacy worth millions, but no will. Legal disputes have continued over the ensuing 50 years, and now the largest single collection of his works is in the Picasso Museum in Paris. Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, grandson of Pablo Picasso, poses in front of the Spanish painter's masterpiece 'Guernica' One of …

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Huge tapestries tell the story of a South African town, one masterpiece at a time
1 year, 11 months ago

Huge tapestries tell the story of a South African town, one masterpiece at a time

CNN  

CNN — The South African town of Hamburg is situated by one of the most beautiful estuaries in the Eastern Cape. It’s one of the huge tapestries on display at the retrospective exhibition “Umaf’ evuka, nje ngenyanga / Dying and rising, as the moon does,” currently showing at Johannesburg’s Constitutional Court of South Africa. Anthea Pokroy/Keiskamma Trust Co-curator Pippa Hetherington …

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An artist confronts the anguish, and hope, of Ukraine
2 years, 6 months ago

An artist confronts the anguish, and hope, of Ukraine

LA Times  

Mexican painter Roberto Marquez at work under a bridge in Irpin, Ukraine, on May 8, 2022. “I figured this is the place for me to work.“ Mexican artist Roberto Marquez paints a work inspired by Picasso’s “Guernica” on a Ukrainian bridge destroyed in Irpin, near Kyiv, on April 26, 2022. Roberto Marquez works on his painting, inspired by Picasso’s “Guernica,” …

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Kent Monkman's The Scream: Images that define atrocities
3 years, 5 months ago

Kent Monkman's The Scream: Images that define atrocities

BBC  

Kent Monkman's The Scream: Images that define atrocities Kent Monkman/ Collection of the Denver Art Museum Some paintings have become the defining images of a social or political catastrophe. Kent Monkman/ Collection of the Denver Art Museum Painted in 2017, The Scream has come to symbolise outrage and grief after the discovery of unmarked graves Since the first discovery in …

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Spanish Confectioners Give a 'Sweet' Makeover to Picasso’s Iconic 'Guernica' Using Chocolate
3 years, 7 months ago

Spanish Confectioners Give a 'Sweet' Makeover to Picasso’s Iconic 'Guernica' Using Chocolate

News 18  

Spanish chocolatiers have achieved a remarkable feat by recreating the life-size painting ‘Guernica’ by the renowned painter Pablo Picasso and that too with chocolate. It was the painter’s response to the Nazi’s agenda that led bombing campaign all across Europe by their warplanes and captured the Basque city of Bilbao claiming victory in northern Spain. The chocolate copy that is …

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Chocolatiers in Basque recreate Pablo Picasso's masterpiece Guernica
3 years, 8 months ago

Chocolatiers in Basque recreate Pablo Picasso's masterpiece Guernica

Hindustan Times  

A group of chocolatiers in Spain's Basque Country are creating a version of "Guernica", Pablo Picasso's masterpiece representing the bombing of a small Basque town in 1937, to showcase their skills and celebrate their cultural heritage. Cooks from Euskal Gozogileak create a full-sized reproduction of Picasso's Guernica made with chocolate. For many Basque people, the memory of the bombing and …

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Basque Confectioners Recreate Picasso's 'Guernica' in Chocolate to Display Skill, Cultural Pride
3 years, 8 months ago

Basque Confectioners Recreate Picasso's 'Guernica' in Chocolate to Display Skill, Cultural Pride

News 18  

A group of chocolatiers in Spain’s Basque Country are creating a version of “Guernica”, Pablo Picasso’s masterpiece representing the bombing of a small Basque town in 1937, to showcase their skills and celebrate their cultural heritage. For many Basque people, the memory of the bombing and Picasso’s visceral artistic response form part of their cultural identity. “For us it is …

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Syria’s Asma al-Assad faces police investigation in the UK
3 years, 9 months ago

Syria’s Asma al-Assad faces police investigation in the UK

Al Jazeera  

Police in the United Kingdom have opened an investigation into allegations that Asma al-Assad, wife of Syrian President Bashar al-Assad, incited and encouraged “terrorist” acts in Syria. The Metropolitan Police told UK media outlet Sky News on Sunday it “received a referral” in July last year “relating to the ongoing Syrian conflict”. The case against al-Assad was brought by Guernica …

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