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Dancing her life: Rosalia Merino Santos by Alma Anonas-Carpio
"I would like that very much, yes.” Dance teacher Rosalia Merino Santos, a dainty woman of 94, said this in reply to the Philippines Graphic’s query about whether she would like to be named National Artist for Dance.
This gracious nonagenarian consented to a...
Of forensic artists & other painters
A janitor, a carpenter, a medico-legal doctor, an agent, a photographer, and a couple of forensic artists—all employees of the National Bureau of Investigation (NBI). All with their paintings on the wall at the first floor hallway of the NBI office in Taft...
Juan Arellano: Framing the Theatrics of Space
Juan Arellano’s corpus of work as an architect and a visual artist is suffused with a theatrical quality in which spaces are framed to embody spectacle and device of drama.
This exhibition—“Framing the Spectacle of Space”—at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila probes the creative...
