“Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America” opens Aug. 14 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas.

“Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America,” a new exhibition opening Aug. 14 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas, explores how they did it.

Located in the mountains of Ecuador, this city is one of the largest and best-preserved colonial jewels in Latin America. It was the first to have been declared a World Heritage Site by its more than ...

Painted Cloth: Fashion and Ritual in Colonial Latin America at the Blanton Museum of Art is an expansive exploration of the vital but little-understood roles of fabric and its representations ...

Latin American Art/Arte Latinoamericano” is the Walters Art Museum’s first permanent exhibition on the area, featuring more ...

Style A New Exhibition at the Blanton Museum in Texas Is Using Fashion to Explore the Art and Hidden Histories of Colonial Latin America. We asked “Painted Cloth” curator Rosario I. Granados ...

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 ...

A new exhibition at New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) offers a retelling of the European colonisation of Latin America through the eyes of contemporary artists. The 65 works by 40 artists of ...

The piece sets the tone for “Tropical: Stories from Southeast Asia and Latin America”, which claims to be the world’s first large-scale art exhibition exploring the colonial and postcolonial ...

As a historian of Latin America, I’ve paid attention to the ways calendars signal a nation’s “official” values and how countries wrestle with these holidays’ meanings.. Día de la Raza ...

This class examines the history of Latin America from 1492 until the early nineteenth century. After considering the rise of the Aztec and Inca empires, we will consider how the Spanish and Portuguese ...