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 ...
CLEVELAND, Ohio — It’s strangely unsettling to peer into the razor-sharp, beautifully toned photographs of 19th-century English colonial gentry, servants, and native royals in India, now on ...
Kolkata: In colonial Calcutta, not all Europeans lived in grand mansions or strolled Park Street in tailored suits. Stranded sailors, drunken drifters, and artists without work permits also lived ...