But why reclaim Manila Bay in the first place?
By Alyosha J. Robillos
The developer of the controversial reclamation of Manila Bay defended the project, citing its alleged economic and environmental benefits.
The developer of the controversial reclamation of Manila Bay defended the project, citing its alleged economic and environmental benefits.
The 1987 blockbuster movie “Dirty Dancing” started as a cassette tape that held its uncut soundtrack, which was repeatedly rejected by every major studio, according to “Dirty Dancing” creator, coproducer, and scriptwriter Eleanor Bergstein.
Art dealers and buyers beware: Criminal syndicates have developed a taste for fine art and, moving like a pack of wolves, they know exactly what to get their filthy paws on and how to pass the blame on to unsuspecting gallery staffers or art collectors.
What has “paw prints” from cover to cover courtesy of a lively mutt named Oskar, is prone to “dog-ears” brought about by small hands, and will keep you guessing all day long?
With the just-concluded Art Fair Philippines (AFP) 2013, its creators (the same people behind the annual Art in the Park) moved to another kind of alternative art space; a “light-up” car park in the middle of Makati.
In a long-running career, Spanish-born painter Betsy Westendorp has captured the likeness of her many subjects, living or not, with pristine precision that is essential to her personal brand of realism.
In the Lifestyle Sunday interview by Elizabeth Lolarga, “Why Is Art Forgery on the Rise Again?” (Dec. 9), Ramon “Richie” Lerma of Salcedo Auctions and Ateneo Art Gallery attributed the rise in art forgery to new collectors entering the scene and being introduced by “unsuspecting friends to fly-by-night art dealers or substandard galleries without knowing any better.”
At one point in the Hollywood musical drama inspired by Italian master Federico Fellini’s “8½,” “Nine,” one of the characters sings, “My life is real with Cinema Italiano.”
In 2007, Farley del Rosario delighted the art scene with a teasing collection which drew inspiration from timeless masterpieces, his playful renditions more takeoff than tribute.
In his “Remembering Ahanagran: A History of Stories,” historian Richard White wrote: “History forges weapons from what memory has suppressed or forgotten.”
With about 1,250 entries from 55 schools all over the country, the 45th Shell National Student Art Competition may have produced the best collection of entries in recent years, artist-judges and organizers said.
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