The historical theme, imposing title, big Asian celebrities, and the drum roll that accompanied Jackie Chan’s 100th-film promotions all contrived to make an epic out of “1911 Revolution,” but what eventually appeared on the big screen didn’t quite fit the scale.
Fifty-seven artists from different fields of arts will be honored by the National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) through the Ani ng Dangal Awards at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila on Feb 2.
Ramon Orlina, our leading glass artist, is celebrating the 37th year since he decided to explore that intriguing material.
Grammy Award-winning artist and musical director David Pack first came to the Philippines in the early 1990s as front man and guitarist of rock group Ambrosia, best known in the Philippines for such hits as “How Much I Feel” and “Biggest Part of Me.”
“War is strange,” an unusual military officer says early in this most unusual book about war. That adage is proven continuously when soldiers are sent not after enemy combatants in ravaged Europe during World War II, but are instead sent to track down priceless pieces of art plundered by the Nazis.
For over 50 years, staff and guests of the International Rice Research Institute (IRRI) have had the pleasure of dining in the presence of two brilliant masterpieces by National Artist Vicente Manansala.
It appears a glassed-in portion of the lobby of the National Commission for Culture and the Arts is being prepared for “beautification” via indoor landscaping.
Because he is known primarily as a printmaker—print being an art form which, for various mistaken notions, is given less value than paintings—Pandy Aviado has not received the general public recognition nor the commercial success that his peers have garnered.
This one is for the books. This Conceptual/Performance act that defies logic and understanding: A most promising artist of the 1970s—already held in high esteem by the likes of Fernando Zobel de Ayala, Roberto Chabet, Lee Aguinaldo and National Artist Arturo Luz—completely vanishes from the art scene.
Just before the first glimmer of sunshine, in chilly early dawn, families, friends, couples, kids and runners laced up their sneakers.
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