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Digital artist finds home in reimagining living spaces
‘I’M pretty sure no artist wants to be stuck in a box.” If having multiple Instagram accounts to…
Vatican issues a street art stamp, ends up getting sued
The Vatican is home to some of the greatest artworks ever made, and it vigorously protects its right to reproduce them by enforcing its copyright over everything from the Sistine Chapel to Michelangelo’s Pietà. But now the tables have turned, and the Vatican stands accused of violating the intellectual property rights of a street artist.
Polish government ends standoff over Jewish museum chief
By Vanessa Gera | The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland—Poland’s government on Friday accepted a compromise candidate as the…
Artists as modern-day alchemists
The boundless curiosity of man sparked a mad rush to understand, and eventually exploit, his connection to the…
Jose Burgos III ’s ‘Pihit’ at Conspiracy Garden Café
Conspiracy Garden Café hosts a collection of paintings by Jose Burgos III. Titled Pihit, the exhibit will showcase…
‘Patikim!’ group show plates Filipino food on canvas
Art Circle Gallery Curator Sarah Alcantara had only one guideline. In the group show that was to bring…
Understanding the center of the center
IN 1988, the New South Wales government in Australia purchased the famed 820-specimen mineral collection of Albert Chapman…
David Medalla continues to put on a show
ONE could easily sense the arrival of a luminary at a social event based on two things. First,…
Deng Coy Miel’s ‘Cuentos Enterruptus’
Scribbling, doodling, drawing, painting…these are the things that Deng Coy Miel does whenever he is not resting or…
Joy Rojas’s ‘Rising Sun’ at SM Art Center
“LOOK at walls splashed with a number of stains, or stones of various mixed colors…If you have to…
Riel Hilario on chasing creatures and an intangible heritage
ART multi-hyphenate Riel Hilario recounts being in the mountains in 2007. It’s 4 am and he’s in the…
Ohana, Ohlala: Reen Barrera on the families of today
IN a modern world where no social construct goes unchallenged, the concept of family is no exception. What…
The journey of an intuitive artist and her controlled chaos
AS a sickly child, while her friends ran and skipped and jumped, Sal Ponce Enrile stayed mostly indoors.…
It’s a Beautiful World: ‘Arte Autismo Filipino Art and Photo Exhibit’ at Globe Art Gallery
A green sanctuary was recreated in the middle of the Bonifacio Global City (BGC) concrete jungle to feature…
‘The Curse of La Llorona’ reigns over weekend box office
By Andrew Dalton | The Associated Press LOS ANGELES—The Curse of La Llorona brought good fortune at the…
Conrad Manila serves a bountiful exhibit in line with National Arts Month
AN abundant spread of contemporary Filipino paintings, sculptures and photographs fill up the hallway exhibition space Gallery C…
Andy Warhol Inc.: How he made business his art
By Blake Gopnik | New York Times News Service IN the fall of 1968, still aching from an…
5Pointz artists find a fresh canvas at new Museum of Street Art
By Lauren Hard | New York Times News Service NEW YORK—Talking about 5Pointz is still emotional for Jonathan…
Photo exhibit documents revival of Polish Jewish life
By Vanessa Gera | The Associated Press WARSAW, Poland—American photographer Chuck Fishman was just 21 when he began…
Huge sea-life sculptures made from ocean’s plastic trash
By Janet McConnaughey | The Associated Press NEW ORLEANS—Huge sculptures of sea life are dotted about New Orleans’s…
Silly old bear: Exhibition explores world of Winnie-the-Pooh
By Kate Brumback | The Associated Press ATLANTA—A new exhibition in Atlanta celebrates Winnie-the-Pooh, wandering through his magical…
22 world records set at Christie’s Rockefeller auction
By Verena Dobnik | Associated Press NEW YORK—Twenty-two world records have been set at a Christie’s auction, including…
Modesto finds his ‘Bliss’
THE dictionary defines “bliss” as joy, contentment and is generally associated with peace of mind and happiness. The latest…
‘Nasaan Si Jonas Burgos?’ takes center stage in Reb Belleza’s show
‘Aktibista lang po ako! Aktibista lang po ako!” were the last words of Jonas Burgos uttered before he…
2017 is a landmark year for artist Fernando Zóbel
Spanish-Filipino artist Fernando Zóbel was 60 years old when he died of a heart attack in Rome. It…
A tribute exhibit at León Gallery and charities at The Magnificent September Auction 2017
León Gallery (www.leon-gallery.com) celebrated the legendary Philippine Art Gallery, ground zero for Manila’s avant-garde in the 1950s, with…
Art goes malling
STUDENTS who have a passion for visual arts had a new and exciting avenue to showcase their art…
Master abstractionist Edwin Wilwayco celebrates 4 decades with coffee-table book
Painting is a discovery. Every time you make a mark on canvas, all sorts of possibilities open up…
The ‘Echo’ of Gregory Halili
A life-size skeleton created entirely from uncut, found corals atop a massive, raw driftwood; skull profiles and open…
Silverlens reopens doors with ‘Translación’
WHAT is lost in every transfer, each subsequent relocation? What is left in a vacated room that cannot…
Rita Gudiño’s ceramic art comes to focus
Filipino ceramic artist Rita Gudiño opens her exhibition, titled Simbuyo, at the Hiraya Gallery today, December 13. In…
Popo San Pascual and Tony Alcasid mount ‘Madonna’ at Casa Conchita
Popo San Pascual, who has been painting for 30 years now, is well-known for his large abstract expressionist canvases that are…
Hidalgo’s prized ‘La Inocencia’ and other ‘kingly treasures’ hit the market
AT the foreground of a spring Parisian garden in Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo’s La Inocencia stands a young lady…
‘Collective Dreams’ exhibition features the visions, aspirations of the kids from Boys Town Davao
THE Alliance Française de Manille (AFM), with the support of the Embassy of France, presents Collective Dreams, an…
Putting the spotlight on Angono Contemporary Art
THE Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) celebrates the birth month of National Artist Carlos “Botong” Francisco via…
First full Edgar Degas retrospective in nearly 30 years shows an artist who liked to be in control
By Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times FOR today’s art, does Edgar Degas matter? That’s the question at the…
The mosaic art of Maria Isabel Lopez
By Sabrina Arpa THE first one woman show of visual artist and actress Maria Isabel Lopez opened recently…
Art and tensions over national identity
By Jessica Meyers / Los Angeles Times A Taiwanese tour guide stood outside the National Palace Museum and waited…
Is this a real Jackson Pollock? Power lawyer sues over potential $100-million mystery
By David Ng | Los Angeles Times PIERCE O’Donnell is a Los Angeles litigator with a track record of…
Bulky, heavy, pricey–yet flourishing. Art catalogs keep print alive in the digital era
By Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times AS far as art books go, Matisse in the Barnes Foundation, published…
How to get the lived-in look without the clutter
By Sacha Strebe | Domaine WHILE we’re told time and time again to keep our homes clean and…
Making children’s lives more colorful
THE Center for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Development (Canvas) and National Artist of the Philippines for Visual…
Exploring the poetry of motherhood
By Jt Nisay There’s warmth in the latest solo exhibit of acclaimed visual artist Araceli Limcaco Dans. It’s…
Repurposing Manila’s ‘forgotten’ landmarks into art venues through London Biennale
THE Metropolitan Theatre is just one of the many architectural marvels that once stood tall and mighty at…
When is art ‘too Filipino’ or ‘not Filipino enough’?
By Jt Nisay Lavanderas by legendary artist Fernando Amorsolo screams Filipino. The painting is a masterful depiction of…
In the footsteps of the Brontë Sisters
By Patti Nickell / Lexington Herald-Leader YORKSHIRE, England—Staring at the horizon, I might have been looking at a vast…
Nazi-looted ‘Adam’ and ‘Eve’ masterpieces with a hidden past
By Carolina A. Miranda/ Los Angeles Times THEY are a seductive pair: Adam, on a painted panel more…
Living in positivity
By Jeremae D. Jumao-as / Special to the BusinessMirror Whenever I take a long ride, I always catch myself…
Art books in the digital renaissance
WITH the current tech-savvy generation mainstreaming art in the digital era, and the same generation’s growing appreciation toward…
The tension between abstract and figurative painting
By Christopher Knight | Los Angeles Times London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerback and Kitaj Where: J. Paul…
Form, flow, function and everything in between
By Pauline Joy M. Gutierrez ‘Everything in life is interconnected,” Naoto Fukasawa said a couple of hours before…
The current Venice Architecture Biennale is decidedly practical. That’s how we live.
By Christopher Hawthorne / Los Angeles Times VENICE, Italy—The 48-year-old Chilean Arch. Alejandro Aravena calls his dense, earnest…
Drones see the world in a way human photographers can’t
By Liesl Bradner / Los Angeles Times Photographer Francesco Cattuto was on a leisurely stroll at sunset the…
Innovation through collaboration: DLS-CSB celebrates WIDD with Danish Embassy
By Pauline Joy M. Gutierrez TO craft a blueprint for an effective urban renewal strategy aimed at changing lives—that’s…
Gary Custodio on being ‘There’
By Tito Genova Valiente / [email protected] Gary Custodio’s latest solo exhibiton at Ysobel Art Gallery runs on a…
Artists collaborate for LGBT, HIV causes
Celebrating freedom through mindful artistry, LoveYourself Inc. taps modern Filipino visual artists to showcase their craftsmanship in Pride…
Defining the best of Filipinos in art
Leon Gallery’s Spectacular Mid-Year Auction 2016 this June handpicks important works that highlight highly coveted art and artists,…
From Junyee to Tristram
By Tito Genova Valiente / E-mail: [email protected] F rom Galleria Duemila in Pasay City comes a a show…
Full of lights but not necessarily enlightened
By Tito Genova Valiente / [email protected] THIS review takes refuge in the words of Wassily Kandinsky, he of…
In the wake of Prince’s death, a very short history of the color purple
By Carolina A. Miranda / Los Angeles Times WHEN Prince unexpectedly passed away earlier last week, the outpouring…
Getting crafty
ANYBODY who knows me knows how gung ho I am about do-it-yourself arts and crafts. Why? Because anything…
Did someone find a $136-million Caravaggio painting in the attic?
By David Ng | Los Angeles Times A painting recovered from a family attic near Toulouse, France, could…
Danish artist Kristian Kragelund’s ‘Reactive Painting’ at Finale Art File
KRISTIAN KRAGELUND (1987) is a Danish artist living and working in London. He works in a variety of…
New works from Nicole Coson
OPENING tomorrow, April 6, at Finale Art File is a solo show featuring new works by Nicole Coson.…
Mystics and saints and other treasures of the Museo del Seminario Conciliar de Nueva Caceres
By Tito Genova Valiente / [email protected] THERE is an old building beside the Naga Metropolitan Cathedral that has housed…
5 million Wikipedia articles made into art? Here’s how code is transformed into cascading color
By Sharon Mizota / Los Angeles Times THESE relatively early days of “post-Internet” art might feel something like…
Carmen Brias channels her Filipino-Spanish roots in new exhibit
By Diana Uy-Chua After seven years of absence in the local art scene, Carmen Brias returns to the…
Who says that malling can’t be a most enriching experience?
AS French novelist Honore de Balzac once said, “Love is not only a feeling, it is also art.”…
Visiting Chicago? Don’t miss ‘Van Gogh’s Bedrooms’
By Steve Johnson / Chicago Tribune CHICAGO—Van Gogh’s Bedrooms, the intensely focused new exhibition at Chicago’s Art Institute, contains…
Unraveling ‘The Bejeweled Cosmos’
By Diana Uy-Chua CRISTINA GRISAR, granddaughter of renowned painter Betsy Westendorp, considers black holes as the most fascinating cosmological…
Never-ending tales from Sergio Bumatay III
By Tito Genova Valiente / [email protected] SERGIO BUMATAY III is a children’s book illustrator and painter, and for his…
A ‘forgotten’ Impressionist’s brief bursts of brilliance
By Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times I’VE tried with Gustave Caillebotte. Really, I have. Surely any artist…
Salvaged and saved: Martial law according to Randolf Dilla
By Tito Genova Valiente / [email protected] Salvaged Memories, Salvaged Lives is a massive work. It stands some 8…
The cradles of noble heroes according to Martin Genodepa
By Tito Genova Valiente / [email protected] LIKE any good effective art, the art installation of Martin Genodepa opens…
National Museum of African Art hurts itself with show from Bill Cosby art collection
By Christopher Knight WASHINGTON, D.C.—Watching an art museum shoot itself in the foot is painful. Watching it then…
Stephen Colbert lampoons mainstream media’s penchant for censoring art
By Jessica Gelt / Los Angeles Times THE $170.4-million sale at auction of Amedeo Modigliani’s 1917 painting Nu…
Plums for the young and crafty
SATURATE the world with color and design, and we can make the world a better place—but be sure…
The ‘selfie culture’ vs the museum-going experience
By Jessica Gelt / Los Angeles Times Editor’s note: This is the second and concluding part of the author’s…
Shopping with the house on fire
IN the recent group exhibition Finders Keepers at Finale Art File in Makati City, young artists Nathalie Dagmang,…
ManilART pursues its own brand of art fair
By Samito Jalbuena ART fairs are a chopsuey of sorts, a pastiche. At the recently concluded ManilART 2015,…
Half a century of BenCab
By Samito Jalbuena RETROSPECTIVES are rewarding, fundamentally for the artist who is having one, and secondarily for the…
Empowerment through art and lifestyle
By JT Nisay TUCKED within the press kit of Zonata Club of Makati and Environs for its “FilipinaZ Artful…
When ‘Thirteen’ is a lucky number
By Samito Jalbuena WHAT’S your favorite number? The number 13 is considered an unlucky number to such extent…
Farewell, ‘Mang’ Ola: Romulo Olazo, 1934-2015
WITH a mortal limit of 81 fruitful and well-lived years, Romulo Olazo became one of the most…
Shifting states, altered realities
Story and photos by Vic Sevilla IS art created merely to charm and indulge the senses? Or is…
When is a Michelangelo not a Michelangelo?
By Mike Boehm / Los Angeles Times IT’S one of the rarest things an American museum could display:…
‘Sculpture in the Age of Donatello’ shows artist’s competitive spirit
By Christopher Knight / Los Angeles Times DONATO DI NICCOLÒ BARDI, better known to posterity as Donatello (circa 1386-1466),…
When art becomes your bedroom space
THERE’S a boutique hotel nestled where the landmark Blanco Center used to be on Salcedo Village in Makati City,…
Because life is never still: Bidibidi’s cups and saucers
IT has been only a few months since I wrote Bernadette de Los Santos’s trees and flowers. The…
Stolen Rodin sculpture recovered through lucky breaks, persistent chipping
By David Ng / Los Angeles Times AS the director and founder of the Comité Rodin in Paris,…
What makes art valuable?
THOSE who jump to conclusions often land in ignorance. And for every complex problem, there is an easy…
Celebrating the vanished: Zaniel Mariano conjures the countryside
ZANIEL MARIANO’S exhibit is called Rural. The simple label speaks both of the subject matter and the artist himself.…
Guess the future of the art market
By Samito Jalbuena ONE has to be a false prophet to take into account the future of the…
Hot-button artsy-fartsy issues that make you go…hmmm
By Samito Jalbuena AND then of course, there are things about newly discovered art, although ol’ King Saul…
Jun de Leon’s ‘Children at the Crossroads: The faces of war’
IN war, even if there are battles won, there are no victors. There is no honor or glory…
Art market 101
A CONTINUING education on the art market is much needed for people who want to venture into this most…
Art-auction superstars
ARTNET, a global leader in art news and art-market analytics, recently released another survey that charts which blue-chip…
Gagosian opens Ed Ruscha in Paris, Rudolf Stingel in Hong Kong
AS one of the last known demigods of the generation that saw Pop Art, Ed Ruscha belongs to…
Salcedo auctions important Philippine art
SALCEDO Auctions’s Important Philippine Art sale is the marquee event of the auction house near a very strategic…
UP trains the spotlight on history as art
CONVENTIONAL wisdom says that history is written by the winners; the losers get their rewards by dumping their…