The possible transfer of the Guernica to the Basque Country, which the Basque government has formally requested from Madrid, reaches the Senate this Tuesday. The PNV will once again ask the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, "why he refuses to study the necessary conditions to make a temporary loan possible" of the painting to the Guggenheim in Bilbao, on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the first Basque government and the bombing of Guernica.The possible transfer has been straining relations between the lehendakari, Imanol Pradales, and the Sánchez government for weeks, and has already provoked predictable criticism from the PP. Now, the Madrid president, Isabel Díaz Ayuso, has defined it as a "foolishness" and called it an "absurd controversy that nationalism always promotes." Ayuso says that Basques can go to Madrid to see the Guernica

It is not applicable. This is the official response that this Tuesday the Minister of Culture, Ernest Urtasun, gave to the PNB regarding the temporary transfer of the Guernica to the Basque Country, which the Vitoria government has formally requested on the occasion of the 90th anniversary of the first Basque executive and the bombing of Gernika. "My duty as minister is to guarantee access to culture, but at the same time to preserve heritage," Urtasun replied to a question from PNB senator Igotz López, closing the door to transporting the painting to the Guggenheim in Bilbao because technicians from the Reina Sofía museum advise against it. A transfer that in any case would only be for half a year: the executive's request is to have it from October 1, 2026, to June 30, 2027.

In the 1970s, Joan Miró's fame was worldwide. Some of the world's most important museums, including the MoMA in New York and the Tate Gallery in London, dedicated exhibitions to him. But accolades didn't soften Miró's spirit, and in the 1974 exhibition at the Grand Palais and the Centre Georges Pompidou, he presented a series of burned canvases. Yes, Miró remained a radical painter, and his gesture can also be interpreted as an act of protest at the end of the Franco regime. Now, one of these canvases, owned by the Fundació Joan Miró, occupies a prominent place at the beginning of the revamped tour of the museum's permanent collection. Reina Sofía Museum From 1975 to the present. Fire and more fire: alongside them, you can see some of the engravings from Picasso's Vollard Suite that were damaged during an attack on the Theo Gallery in Madrid perpetrated by the Guerrillas of Christ, who considered Picasso "a Marxist, homosexual, and pimp."