A long lost 1986 documentary on Philippine cinema in which Lino Brocka predicted the rise of independent cinema has been found and will be screened on Sept. 8 at the Cultural Center of the Philippines.
Léon Gallery has assembled a prodigious number of artworks, antiques and objets d’art from distinguished provenances for its “Magnificent September Auctions 2018” on Sept. 8.
As far as missed opportunities go, Philip Pullman’s “His Dark Materials” trilogy represented one of the biggest lost adaptations. The fantasy trilogy—composed of 1995’s “The Golden Compass” (originally titled “Northern Lights”), 1997’s “The Subtle Knife” and 2000’s “The Amber Spyglass”—took place in a kind of steampunk London (among other dimensions where technology and magic existed in Victorian Albion. The most unique touch: human souls were made concrete in the form of creatures known as daemons who always stay close to their humans.
Pianist Aries Caces gave a brilliant performance of two Russian piano concertos with Darrell Ang of Singapore conducting the Manila Symphony Orchestra in “An Evening of Russian Piano Concertos” at the Meralco Theater.
Despite heavy monsoon rains and flash floods, the 100-member Asian Youth Orchestra (AYO) capped its two-night engagement at the Cultural Center of the Philippines recently, with Manila audiences giving it a shouting ovation.
The competition, open to teens aged 13 to 15, is offering the vacation to the winners of the best poetry and drawings.
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.
Over 100 children were told of encouraging tales of courage and compassion during the second session of Inquirer Read-Along belatedly commemorating National Heroes’ Day.
It was too good to be true. A mural sporting Banksy’s alleged signature in a declining town in northwestern Spain that had caused a sensation when it appeared overnight in
In a small workshop down a narrow alleyway in Taipei’s Ximending district, tattoo artist Bobo Chen is refreshing a scene from a Japanese epic with new ink on a client’s back.
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