Ex-mandarins demand 'colonial-era' paintings are removed from 'elitist' Foreign Office to avoid offending visiting diplomats under a major rebrand of a department 'rooted in the past' ...

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.

Although practically all the works on view are marvelous examples of colonial painting, it is still difficult to admire them simply and "purely" for their formal virtues as works of art. Rather, casta ...

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 two pieces were returned as part of the museum’s colonial-era provenance program which looks to identify artifacts that ...

Then, they cleaned the colonial-era paintings with cotton swabs, and retouched the images where necessary. “They all have their own character—they’re not copies,” Pocobene said of the angels.

Conservators Are Uncovering Elaborate Angel Murals Hidden Behind Seven Layers of White Paint at a Colonial-Era Church The colorful wall paintings adorn Boston’s Old North Church, which played a ...

Artist uses nature and cryptic visions in his paintings to highlight South Africa's racial and spatial history ...