SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Masked Mexican rebel leader Subcomandante Marcos, wearing a purple three-piece suit, is paired with Britney Spears in a Wonder Woman costume. Their child is a tiny albino Marcos, ...

As far as discoveries go, it is pretty epic: a rare 18th century masterpiece rolled up under a couch. My colleague Christopher Knight has the story about the rare colonial painting by Mexican artist ...

In 18th-century Mexico, casta paintings were all the rage, as the bloodlines of Spanish colonizers and of the colonized indigenous, black and mixed-race populations mingled and American-born Spaniards ...

"Casta Paintings" rewards — perhaps better-phrased, demands — close viewing, during which the eye will reveal Friedemann-Sanchez’s delicate looseness of technique, best seen in the lace-rooted florals ...

A recent acquisition by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (Lacma) is an example of a forgotten genre of “casta” painting, in which artists tracked the racial diversity of the New World, mostly for ...

Dress codes shown in 18th-Century art can tell us a lot about race and identity – both then and now. Cath Pound explores the surprising details hidden in the "Casta" paintings of Latin America. The ...

Acid Baroque, the exhibition on display at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art in Arizona, USA, gives a modern psychedelic spin to the colonial “casta” or caste paintings first created in 18th ...

Lots of people have a stray fuzz ball or two kicking around under the sofa, or perhaps a missing sock to match the lonely one at the bottom of the laundry hamper. Christina Jones Janssen had something ...