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EXPOLIARIVM: The expatriate life of Juan Luna’s famous painting
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...
There’s a light that never goes out for Filipinos—thanks to art
The celebration of the Philippines’ arts and culture is a celebration for all, regardless of one’s proclivities, so long as it stands to illuminate the citizen—and the nation—for good.
What does a beauty queen of mixed heritage have anything to do with Philippine arts...
‘AI is following my feelings, my soul!’: Margarita Marquis’s musically misguided Moudifa should worry us
If Moudifa stands as a possible indication of what might come to Philippine theater, then the future of Filipino artistry will be as stale as this AI-generated musical
What is true artistry? Ever since the boom of generative artificial intelligence (AI) a couple of...
Hymen, oh Hyménée!: Juan Luna’s love in a time of lunacy
Juan Luna’s ‘Hymen, oh Hyménée!’ drowns the public with overwhelming passion for the last time, 132 years later.
From Oct. 7 to Oct. 16, the Ayala Museum held a special one-object exhibit. It was for a painting dubbed as “the holy grail of Philippine...
She looms a beauty: The power of weaving and femininity in ‘A Loom of Stories’
Seven artists led the female-charged 37th edition of the Of Art and Wine exhibit in the form of loom and weaving
If one would lightly trace the original thread of weaving in our country’s history to find at what age we first practiced it,...
“Karne” Review: FEU Theater Guild’s take on Roald Dahl plays with the four senses
FEU Theater Guild’s Karne is a “kettle play,” boiling and boiling, whistling to a cathartic climax that leaves the audience morally gray.
The audience could not be blamed if in the course of watching Karne, they end up forgetting that it was executed by...
