AT THE Kingly Treasures Auction 2015 of León Gallery, the highest-selling piece was Anita Magsaysay-Ho’s 1964 oil-on-canvas “Four Women,” which was sold for P23.94 million
Abe (pronounced Ah-beh) is the Kapampangan word for companion or friend. It is also the name of a popular upscale Filipino restaurant named in honor of Emilio Aguilar Cruz—writer, painter, diplomat, gourmand and raconteur.
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.
No amount of rain can stop our preparations for this year’s Red Charity Gala on Oct. 18 at the Makati Shangri-La.
Amid climate change and unpredictable weather, one valuable lesson that old houses could teach Filipinos is how their ancestors adapted to situations bereft of creature comforts such as motor transport and electricity.
We were extremely excited when we found out that Juvenal Sansó was coming to Cebu. We’ve heard so much about the world-renowned, multiawarded living art legend—that it seemed as surreal as his bright, dreamlike landscapes that he would actually hold an exhibit of his personal collection at Qube Gallery’s first anniversary and grace the affair.
The Qube art gallery is the concern of Jon Gotiong and Maris Holopainen, at the Henry Hotel in Banilad. It has just celebrated its first anniversary. To mark the occasion, they brought in their most important art exhibit so far.
“It’s like making a copy of an Amorsolo [painting] and then destroying the original Amorsolo,” a heritage conservationist described the fate of “The Furies” of Italian sculptor Francesco Riccardo Monti.
The first antique Filipiniana dictionary I ever owned (“Vocabulario de la Lengua Tagala” by Pedro de Sanlucar, 1754) came from Ambeth Ocampo. Way back in the early ’80s, he was already collecting a lot of old Filipino books—I mean by “old” that most of them were still in Spanish—that I then wondered what their use ever was going to be. (You’d need a Spanish dictionary beside you all the time.)
The female Amorsolo” was a phrase-paean ascribed to the recently departed Anita Magsaysay-Ho, by virtue of the fact she was the only female member of the so-called Thirteen Moderns, a list drawn up by Victorio Edades, pioneer proselytizer of modern art in the country.
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