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 ...

C aste paintings emerged as a product of the complex social and racial hierarchies among European, Indigenous, and Black ...

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 ...