While examining the archives of the Biblioteca Nacional de España, I encountered an albumen photograph labelled “Sala de pintura y escultura at the Exposition Universelle of 1889 in Paris.”
The image is attributed to Juan Laurent—one of the most important photographers working in late...
On Samal they are reminded by N.V.M Gonzalez that the country's finest writers belong to the provinces.
It was the provinces, according to novelist N.V.M Gonzalez, that literally filled your imagination, that fired your heart and spirit, that made you the writer you have become. And for the 18 writers and eight panelists---all big names in Philippine contemporary literature---the recently-concluded 25th UP National Creative Writers' Workshop at a scenic beach...
Photographs of Dr. Paz Maria Mendoza Guazon and her sister Guillermina Mendoza taken at interesting spots during their tour of the world. In the top row are (1) the travelers traveling on camels pictured in front of the pyramids of Guizeh; (2) the doctor in front of Saint Mark's Basilica; (3) the sisters with Windsor Castle near London in the background. Second row: (1) Miss Mendoza at the International...
As we count the months, weeks, days, and hours to the centennial year of the Philippines Graphic in 2027, we will walk down memory lane. With every issue, we will present to our readers snatches of the distant past—captured in reprints of Graphic stories, editorials, columns, illustrations, and photos published during the first five decades of the magazine. It is our way of showing to our readers how unresolved issues and concerns...
A book smaller than your thumb, Roman coins before Christ’s time, priceless Ming jars, and all kinds of oddities—you’ll find them in PI’s oldest and largest museum.
Where in the Philippines can one find a book which is smaller than a ten-centavo coin? Or a 200-million-year-old fossilized piece of wood dug in Mandaluyong, Rizal? Or coins circulated at the time of Christ?
The answer, of course, is the University of Santo...
The astronauts got it right the first time. It was 1971 and Apollo 14 Lunar Module Pilot Edgar Mitchell peered through the small window of their spacecraft and saw a 360-degree panoramic view of the Earth, Moon, Sun, and the stars.”
TRIBUTE — On September 26, the Filipino literary titan, maestro of the Philippine short story, and former Graphic editor Gregorio C. Brillantes passed away at 92.
It looks like it’s going to be a long haul when you scan the country, or even just this part of town, from the corner of Taft and Padre Faura—a long dazed journey, not to “Philippines 2000,” the splendiferous miracle promised FVR’s faithful a mere seven years from now, but to reality of NIChood probably a century hence.