Women at Cannes: What do the numbers tell us?
The selection of films in competition at the Cannes Film Festival is one of the strongest for women so far, but there are…
An Amorsolo in the family was Col. Jose Gutierrez’s dream—not a painting, but an artist child. He himself did some paintings and illustrations, although he was an engineer at the Philippine Military Academy.
Declare MiraNila a heritage house, proposed Sen. Helena Z. Benitez in a letter to the executive director of the National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP), Ludovico Badoy, five years before her death in 2016.
New art galleries joined the recent 7th Art Fair Philippines, such as District Gallery, founded in 2017 by Artist Playground under composer Jesse Lucas and actor Roeder Camañag with Atty. Edsel Velasco of St. Vincent School.
Watching Clint Eastwood’s latest film “The Mule,” you’d notice in the credits a very Filipino name as casting director: Geoffrey Miclat.
Vibrant colors, enticing texture and diverse Mindanao features on canvas framed in exquisitely designed hardwood and illuminated by intricately carved ostrich eggs: The artworks, seemingly done by a lone artist, are in fact collaborative pieces by three disparate artists: painter and sculptor of gigantic monuments in Mindanao Ray Mudjahid Ponce Millan aka Kublai Millan, furniture designer Agi Pagkatipunan and sculptor Danny Rayos del Sol.
The literature and arts community woke up on July 4 with a heartbreaking news—poet, essayist, editor, teacher and translator Rogelio G. Mangahas is dead.
Nick Joaquin wrote about Calle Morayta in old Sampaloc, Manila, thus: “Remember Catalina Zandueta when she played a gorgeous Aida? Or the really heartbreaking ‘Madame Butterfly’ of Dalisay Aldaba? Or the great Alexandra Danilova dancing the ‘Dying Swan?’ Or the Manila Symphony Orchestra in concert doing the ‘Brahms No. 2’? Or the premiere of Leonor Orosa’s ‘Noli Dance Suite’ (“Salome, Sisa, Maria Clara”)? Or Alfredo Lozano or José Cubiles, to play Beethoven’s ‘Appassionata’? Or everyone’s astonishment when Martha Graham displayed her ballet à la mode? Or Remedios Bosch Jimenez singing Leonora to Arrigo Pola’s ‘Trovatore?’”
At 88, National Artist for Sculpture and acknowledged Father of Modern Philippine Sculpture Napoleon Abueva has passed away. At 46...
Nick Joaquin’s “A Portrait of the Artist as Filipino” is debuting as a movie at the 2017 Metro Manila Film...
In celebration of the 60th anniversary of World Vision, artist Addie Cukingnan is dedicating her 15th solo painting exhibit to...
