A story is told that, in 1989, New York wine merchant William Sokolin tried to sell a bottle of 1787...
Romy Sia, the man behind premium niche retail stores for “a very specific high-end clientele,” never forgets to look back...
Last month, I dreamed of Rolando Tinio. It would have been likely if the dream content were tenor Dodo Crisol,...
Perception is all. Perspective is all. With this in mind, one can turn the bishops on their heads by drawing...
On entering Shaw Boulevard from Edsa in Mandaluyong City, one can’t help but notice a well-manicured tract of prime lot with two 1950s houses, a shadowy one and a larger vintage structure with a stretch of off-white walls. The first house on the right is Doy and Celia Laurel’s.
Time for an honest appraisal. Let’s pause from all this jingoism, put things in their proper places, and call a...
You do not have to wallow in the Pasig and fish out a decaying carcass in order to tell a good story. It is always in the air. In the heart, in the mind. These are the raw materials. The question is, How do we treat these stories?
The joint exhibit of photographer Jaime Zobel and painter Igan D’Bayan, recently at the lobby gallery of Ayala Museum in Makati City, is a study in counterpoise.
Inarguable the most important art exhibit in the country this year is by a foreigner. Ongoing until Jan. 7, 2012, in the Galeriya Bangko Sentral of the Metropolitan Museum of Manila at Roxas Boulevard is “Suite Vollard: Pablo Picasso 1930-1937,” 100 prints on vellum paper and laid Montval paper, organized by Fundación Mapfre, Fundación Santiago and the Met.
We are a deeply troubled soul these days. We’ve just seen Roland Emmerich’s latest movie and we rather enjoyed it. In “Anonymous,” the German-born director portrays the rise of Shakespeare parallel to the decline of Queen Elizabeth I, and the thriving of Shakespearean drama amidst the political intrigues in the Elizabethan court. Never have we been so taken by a movie about Shakespeare as now.
