Walter Benjamin's dictum that every work of art is also a work of barbarism comes to mind with "New World Orders," an exhibition of Spanish colonial casta paintings currently on display at the ...

Casta paintings highlighted the growing dominance of mestizos—people of mixed Spanish and Indigenous ancestry—in a society ...

Historical paintings found in storage at a city's museum have been confirmed by an art historian as important original works. The five casta paintings were discovered at Leicester Museum and Art ...