A painting by the late pop artist Roy Lichtenstein that disappeared 42 years ago has turned up in a New York City warehouse and is in legal limbo.
Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera’s 2003 oil-on-canvas “Sabel,” one of the largest singular-figure pieces in the “Sabel” series, measuring 96” x 72” (244 cm x 183 cm), was sold for a ground-breaking P46.72 million at León Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction 2015.
A nondescript building on a quiet street somewhere outside Philadelphia holds a secret stash of treasures that have been waiting patiently for more than a century for a permanent place to call home.
DEFY youth and feel good about it. That’s what COSE or the Coalition of Services for the Elderly has been...
Gore Vidal, the author, playwright, politician and commentator whose novels, essays, plays and opinions were stamped by his immodest wit and unconventional wisdom, died Tuesday at age 86, his nephew said Tuesday.
DOHA, Qatar — Human rights experts at the United Nations have called on Qatar to release a poet sentenced to...
The common way to analyze a work of art is to compare it with its source. In this memetic reading,...
The works reveal how he responds to certain events,” art critic and historian Dannie Alvarez says, describing BenCab. “Imagine, he even had a series on earthquakes and typhoons. But while he may be reacting, perhaps violently, to certain situations, you never see it in his work. It is not an angry work. It is still a very composed, delightful painting. Pero ’pag tiningnan mo, malalim pala...”
“Optiks” is a suite of large paintings that depict the signs of the times. Alvin Villaruel has a pulse for the guile of our perceptions.
IT IS a touching gesture that Emilio Aguilar Cruz’s legacy of patriotism and service has been upheld by his family, and in giving his artworks to the nation through the National Museum, the works have become even more significant.
