Art & Culture

Loop, pull, wrap, another pull. The crochet hook moves with a rhythm both meditative and mechanical. Crochet, popularly known in the Philippines as gantsilyo, is a traditional needlecraft that involves creating items by hand using a hook and yarn. For the thousands of Filipinos...

A New Year fire gutted a 1969 Protestant landmark in Quezon City, destroying rare stained glass and igniting urgent calls for heritage-sensitive rebuilding. Just after the new year, a fire destroyed a Protestant Church’s 1969 heritage sanctuary and similarly dated stained glass panels—a rare...

This year’s Pulilan Mandala Art Festival has successfully concluded its series of exhibitions and events, but the story does not simply end there. Not quite. A few murals have remained, becoming focal points for community dialogue and a shared sense of place. One of...

Indulge me for a while and let me make the roughest of conjectures: The lowest possible estimate for the total number of oral literary traditions in the country will be no less than four times the total number of ethnolinguistic groups across the...

In the heart of Quiapo stands the historic Bahay Nakpil-Bautista, a living witness to the nation's struggle for independence, cultural identity, and collective memory. Its wooden floors, stone foundations, antique furnishings, and family heirlooms tell stories that cannot be found in textbooks alone. Yet...

EXCLUSIVE: An important 1833 portrait by Damian Domingo, considered to be the father of Philippine painting, went unnoticed for centuries and has now been rediscovered. The rediscovered painting Damián Domingo’s Girl with a Puppy (Niña con perrito, showing a miniature poodle) is an important...