Amanda Bynes breaks social media hiatus to share photo from fashion school graduation
There’s light at the end of the tunnel, and for Amanda Bynes, a diploma as well. The actress tweeted a photo from her…
To find Jose Rizal in Europe has been a fervent dream of my husband, a retired University of the Philippines professor. For more than two decades, he fervently taught the Rizal course required by law of every graduating college student. He told me that if we ever traveled to Europe again, he wanted to take a route taken by our national hero.
Shock and sadness gripped me while watching on television the Notre-Dame of Paris being engulfed in flames on my departed daughter’s birthday last April 15.
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...
