Cybele Gontar speaks to visitors including Barbara Trevigne, in period costume, about a 'casta painting' from colonial Mexico. This painting was not by Josef Salazar.

There’s a specific gaze that accompanied orientalist artists, a fascination laced with condescension. 'They exoticise, they mysticise, they romanticise,' said DAG's Giles Tillotson.

France to return African art taken during colonial era. A museum near the Eiffel Tower holds thousands of works from former French colonies. Posted October 8, 2021. Updated October 8, 2021.

McIntosh — who has been dealing with the colonial era and racism in her art for almost 10 years — hopes her works will sharpen people's view of the colonial past and create more awareness of ...

The painting, titled “Congo Belge II,” was made in the 1970s and depicts a period in the history of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) (previously know as Zaire), a former Belgian colony.

In 2022, the Yenas sold more than 400 Spanish colonial-era artifacts to the Alamo and donated six large paintings, including a depiction of the 1836 battle. Yena’s paintings and many of the ...

The drawings were dated to between 1670 CE and 1830 CE, a period when the local Bidayuh people used the cave as refuge from territorial violence, much of it by Malay elites who controlled the region.

The German Lost Art Foundation's expertise in researching Nazi-era loot will expand as demands for colonial-era restitution grows at home and abroad. Price Database 08 July 2025 ...

The colonial era has left its mark on Germany. Cheryl McIntosh explores colonial history and its impact on the present. Street names, monuments and graves of colonial rulers: The colonial era has ...