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 ... American art of that (or any ...

To-morrow night there will be a sale by the Anderson Auction Company, 5 West Twenty-ninth Street, of portraits and paintings of the colonial period belonging to a well-known collector of Baltimore.

Four days later, the original paintings were mounted at the National Museum. The oil-on-canvas panels measuring 2.92 meters by 2.76 meters depict the history and development of medicine in the country ...