Visiting the National Gallery of Art in Washington during Lent is always an enriching experience, but a recently acquired ...

"Casta" is Spanish for caste and these "casta paintings" are incredibly frank documents--unparalleled by anything in our time--of the race-based social hierarchy that existed in colonial Latin America ...

Catarina de San Juan’s life reads like an epic – and her extraordinary story is little known. Born in South Asia during the ...

Carnival, also known as "Carnaval" in Latin America, is one of the most anticipated celebrations across the region. It's a ...

Dana Leibsohn’s current research taps the insights of anthropology and art history, focusing on both indigenous visual culture in colonial Latin America and trans-Pacific trade in the early modern ...

Women have long been on the front lines of the battle to build a more just world. The Bartolina Sisa National Confederation ...

Cultural Worlds of the Jesuits in Colonial Latin America OPEN ACCESS 2020 Cultures of Anti-Racism in Latin America and the Caribbean OPEN ACCESS 2019 Designed for Play: Children’s Playgrounds and the ...

Thanks to one of the largest and best-preserved colonial cores in Latin America, Ecuador's capital was named the very first UNESCO World Heritage site. The city's dramatic setting squeezed between ...