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Guernica (1937) is among the most stinging visual protests against the horrors of war. In 2017 the Museo Reina Sofía in Madrid launched ‘Rethinking Guernica’, an interactive digital resource that offers multiple routes through the vast body of research that has been conducted on the painting – from documentation of the creation of the work and its initial reception to the many interpretations it has since accrued. Gigapixel photography enables viewers to explore the canvas up close in normal light, ultraviolet, infrared and X-Ray. This month the museum announced that the resource has been upgraded and expanded, with the addition of more than 200 documents, as well as two new sections: ‘Oral History’ (which includes video interviews with Claude Picasso, the artist’s son, and Roland Dumas, the executor of his will) and ‘(Im)Possible Counter-Archives’, which presents new research into the painting’s influence on anti-war activism. Explore the ‘Rethi
Hitler s Invasion of France Created a Humanitarian Crisis
The 1940 exodus from Paris as the German Army approached choked the roads from the city with refugee traffic.
Here s What You Need to Know: Many of the refugees had no ultimate destination in mind.
During the afternoon of May 16, 1940, flames rose from the block of Foreign Office buildings on the Quai d’Orsay in Paris. Earlier that morning the alarming news that the Germans were approaching Laon, less than 100 miles northeast of the French capital, had sent the government into a panic; by 11 am all ministers and staff were told to ready themselves for departure at any time.