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.
EVERY day, a long queue of women waits outside the Breast Care Center at the East Avenue Medical Center, Quezon City. These women, all fighting breast cancer, seek comfort from each other. They exchange notes and tips, even share jokes.
The elevator was added only a few years ago. Since he moved into the building in 1996, Efren Ocampo had been climbing five flights of stairs to get to his apartment on the top floor. Although it was good exercise for him, it was hard when he had packages to carry up and down.
“This is a portrait of my partner Courtney, who has tolerated a man who plays with Lego bricks all day for a ridiculously long time,” read a note that was pinned below one of Nathan Sawaya’s artworks at the Discovery Times Square in New York.
West meets East as the princely House of Liechtenstein of Austria showcases its collection of paintings and artworks at the National Museum of Singapore until Sept. 29.
An official says the Philippine government has seized 15 paintings from the former home of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, part of efforts to recover 156 artworks included in his alleged ill-gotten wealth.
Leading American portraitist Everett Raymond Kinstler has painted the world's most recognizable faces, including seven U.S. presidents and thousands of luminaries in film and theater.
In 1965, a 23-year-old Benedicto Cabrera held his first exhibit at the modest gallery of the Art Association of the...
International Care Ministries (ICM), an organization helping alleviate the impoverished in Negros, Bohol, and Mindanao, held its annual fundraising art auction in Hong Kong recently. The auction raised over HK$3.2 million, or around P17.8 million. The money will be used to fund ICM’s HK$30 million cash budget during the current fiscal year.
Leon Gallery’s Magnificent September Auction 2014 last Sept. 13 made numerous “world records,” according to auction director Jaime Ponce de León.
