Seasoned artist Francisco M. Verano welcomed patrons, art scholars, fellow artists, students and guests when “Fragmentos,” an exhibit of abstract paintings and sculptures from 1959 up to the present, opened last June 20.
Every year, student artists look forward to the Shell National Student Art Competition, the decades-long annual contest for students sponsored by Pilipinas Shell Petroleum Corp., a leading energy, gas and
It seems that whenever I sit down to write a press release for an important art exhibition, my text has a way of morphing into a larger backstory. It just goes to show how big a space in my life art and artists occupy.
Two eyes… a nose… a mouth… two ears. These are all the physical features that man shares with the beast. But for his soul, the living spirit that resides in man, there would be no meaningful difference between the two.
Leonardo da Vinci’s “Mona Lisa” is one of the timeless artworks in the history of art. But in the context of Philippine cinema, it is the name of an actress who shares the same name as the title of Da Vinci’s painting and who also possesses the same attributes as the painter’s beautiful model with a mysterious smile.
Mounting an art exhibition in the Big Apple can be intimidating. New York is New York.
Kevin Kwan is right in quoting F. Scott Fitzgerald in his article for The Daily Beast, where I first heard of his novel, “Crazy Rich Asians”: “The rich are different from you and me.”
The Red Cross Manila Chapter held a successful dinner-dance at the Manila hotel recently, which was a kick-off event for the planning of the Valentine Ball.
He may only be 27 years old, but artist Leeroy New already has a sizeable body of work that ranges from the drawings and sculptural pieces he did when he was younger to the public installations and wearable art that reminds one of vegetation or insect carapaces.
One afternoon in 1948, as I was watering my pechay plot in our elementary school garden class, I heard, “Psssst! Psssst!” coming from the direction of the bushes bordering the school grounds and the uplands ascending Mount Banahaw. I ignored the “psst!” And this was followed by “Hoy! Minyong!”
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