You can endure many hardships in life if you have art, the Spanish Filipino painter Betsy Westendorp was once quoted as saying. In 2016, word reached the artist in Manila
“Lies and fake news.” This is how Provenance Gallery head Raul Francisco characterized insinuations that they somehow “snatched” their coming exhibit of Betsy Westendorp paintings from another gallery (See
People are talking about how cutthroat the art business is becoming. Two leading Metro galleries recently found themselves in contretemps over 92-year-old painter Betsy Westendorp, best known for her portraits
In “Convergence” at Provenance Gallery at Shangri-La at the Fort, painters Betsy Westendorp, Cesar Caballero and Ramon Diaz converge to tackle nature, but in their own particular idioms and styles.
TALK with Carmen Brias and you’ll immediately be transported into an era of Manila much different from today. The artist was born in Manila and spent the first 12 years
Blown-up images from photographer Rupert Jacinto’s “Faaabvlous IV” coffee-table book will be on display at the Gallery of The Peninsula Manila from Nov. 20 to Dec. 2.
There are only two museums owned by artists in the country: BenCab Museum in Baguio and Museo Orlina in Tagaytay.
Betsy Westendorp and Igan D’Bayan are featured in a back-to-back exhibit, which opens on June 18, 6 p.m., at the Crucible, fourth floor, SM Megamall A, Mandaluyong City.
In a long-running career, Spanish-born painter Betsy Westendorp has captured the likeness of her many subjects, living or not, with pristine precision that is essential to her personal brand of realism.
It was a year ago when we first sat down to lunch at Le Coude Rouge, our French “canteen” at Alliance Française de Manille (AFM). It’s a practice I established when I volunteered to manage the Total Gallery six years ago, soon after I came back home and was invited by Marivic Rufino to join the AFM board of directors.
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