The coffee-table book on the life and art of the late Mario Parial shows the rich efflorescence of a species of Philippine folk genre.
IN ABSENTIA is the artist on the opening of his solo exhibition at Hiraya Gallery, which puts the pressure on...
WHAT flights of imagination did Romilo Nadonza achieve by his exciting blend of humor and irreverence, passion and affection, seriousness...
JOSEPH Stalin of Russia. Adolf Hitler of Nazi Germany. Benito Mussolini of Italy, Mao Tse-tung of China. Sukarno of Indonesia....
HISTORICAL events have always been commemorated in paintings or murals, with the objective of perpetuating their memory, deepening a people’s...
WHAT business would a renowned portrait painter have to do with abstraction? No more opposite sensibility is there than these...
IS “HIBLA” the next “Diaphanous”? Started decades ago, reaching back to the 1970s, and propelled running into the hundreds of...
AS CURIOUS children we observed with rapt fascination the repeated “eyes” around the pineapple which Mother was about to peel....
ADMITTEDLY, many pieces of “tourist art” were done by hacks, with no pretensions to high art. Still, there were some...
AT THE Singapore I Light Festival in 2012, she dazzled the audience with her glowing “Coral Garden.” For this visual...
