Aureo Alonzo, ’60s fashion stalwart; 85
-Philippine fashion stalwart Aureo R. Alonzo died Monday morning of hypovolemic shock due to gastrointestinal bleeding at Makati Medical Center. He would have been 86 on July 19.
-Philippine fashion stalwart Aureo R. Alonzo died Monday morning of hypovolemic shock due to gastrointestinal bleeding at Makati Medical Center. He would have been 86 on July 19.
Porcupines in cages, endangered tortoises in buckets and snakes in cloth bags – rare wildlife is on open sale at a Chinese market, despite courts being ordered to jail those who eat endangered species.
It is unfortunate that the outrage that greeted the decision of President Aquino to reject the nomination of actor Nora Aunor as national artist (NA) has overshadowed and even eclipsed what should be the biggest development in arts and culture in years: the proclamation of the biggest batch of national artists since 2006.
Today the fate of Vigan, capital of Ilocos Sur, will be decided. The list of 28 cities contending for New 7 Wonders Cities will be reduced to 21; then to 14 on Oct. 2; and the top seven cities will be announced Dec. 7.
The comeback record of leading Korean pop (K-pop) boy band Beast, “Good Luck,” is sweeping the Hallyu music charts for its tuneful dynamism and video that has intrigued many for its cross-cultural references.
It doesn’t seem like anything remotely close to a reunion would transpire as bodies of the dead pile up in “Reunion” (“Itai Asu e no Tokakan”), last year’s Japanese film release which tackles events based on the aftermath of the Great East Earthquake and Tsunami of 2011. It is one of the 16 contemporary films in this year’s Eiga Sai, with theme focusing on family.
Artist J. Consunji has been sketching and painting for most of his young adult life but it was only last month that he opened his first, one-man show.
“There are no rules. That is how art is born, how breakthroughs happen. Go against the rules or ignore the rules. That is what invention is about.” Those fearless words were said by the late artist Helen Frankenthaler, who herself found her own breakthrough by pursuing the technique of Jackson Pollock, thus heralding Color Field Painting, subsequently influencing the direction of the works of other important artists such as Morris Louis and Jules Olitski.
León Gallery’s “Spectacular Midyear Auction” held last June 21 attracted an impressively large crowd. The auction featured at least 153 pieces of artworks, antiques and objets d’art from prestigious provenances.
The power of Beethoven’s Eroica Symphony, the beauty of a Mozart concerto, and two seldom-heard Mozart arias are the top attractions of the July 11 concert of Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) under the baton of Darrell Ang at Philippine Stock Exchange Auditorium, Tektite Tower, Ortigas Center, Pasig City.
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