From the uniquely imaginative mind of writer/producer/director Baz Luhrmann comes the new big-screen adaptation of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s novel “The Great Gatsby.”
The artist Roberto Chabet, who died after heart failure on May 1, mentored generations of artists who revered and loved him not just for coaxing out of them the ability to look at and make art in a new way, but also because of the awe for his work, which, through the simplest of forms, could have cosmic sweep at the same time that it could express such tender humanity.
The Philippine Montessori Center Instrumental Ensemble (PMCIE) and the Temple Hill International School Music Ensemble (Thisme), together with the Philippine Madrigal Singers, and with the special participation of marimba player Thristan “Tum-Tum” U. Mendoza, gave a rousing farewell concert at Meralco Theater recently.
For budding student artists, Pilipinas Shell has set up the annual Shell Art Interaction as a complement to the prestigious Shell National Students Art Competition.
Catandunganons took a big respite from political jingles when they trooped to the closing concert of the summer music festival at the Kemji Resort in Virac, Catanduanes.
From April 21 to 27, the University of St. La Salle-Bacolod (USLS) was home to Kritika 2013, the national workshop on art and cultural criticism, which was held with the Iyas Creative Writing Workshop.
Transwing Art Gallery (www.kunstgallery.eu) in Darmstadt, Germany, which has a satellite office in Dasmariñas, Cavite, will launch the art-history book “Revisiting Mabini Art” at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) Gallery in Intramuros on May 20, 5 p.m.
Kristian Jeff Cortez Agustin, a poet and interdisciplinary artist, has published in London “For Love and Poetry,” a book that celebrates various art forms intersected with photographs and the art of weaving words.
Andre Gide, winner of the 1947 Nobel Prize in Literature, said: “Man cannot discover new oceans unless he has the courage to lose sight of the shore.”
On view at De La Salle University (DLSU) Museum is “Art and Space: A Collection of Design Concepts by Wili Fernandez,” which runs till Aug. 16.
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