I first met Gilda Cordero Fernando (GCF) four decades ago, in a freshman English class. We were assigned “People in...
Kamote or sweet potato is one of the many foreign crops immigrants introduced to the Philippines from Mexico in the 16th century.
To a generation inseparable from their mobile phones, church bells are a jurassic way of telling time. Children of the digital age cannot even imagine a period when church bells rang to mark the progress of a day.
Controversy continues to swirl over a telegram sold at auction last week for P3.2 million.
“Heneral Luna,” the surprise box-office hit of 2015, now streaming on Netflix, was all it took to draw crowds of young people into the León Gallery auction preview early this week.
"Fools rush in where angels fear to tread” can be applied to the people trying to cash in on the overheated auction scene in Manila.
Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” is probably the most famous painting in the Philippines. Completed in Rome in 1884, it won a First Class medal in the Madrid Exposition of Fine Arts, the same exhibition that awarded Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo’s “Jovenes cristianas expuestas al populacho” (Christian maidens exposed to the mob) with a Second Class medal.
CARMEN GUERRERO CRUZ NAKPIL (all caps) was the name on the printed invitations that commanded attendance in some very remarkable dinners.
The “Spoliarium” may well be Juan Luna’s largest and most historically significant painting, but it is definitely not his best.
Generations of college students reared on the standard Rizal textbook by Gregorio Zaide were introduced to the so-called “Rizal A...
