Tingguians, they are called. She of the sub-group Illaud. Her name: Norma Agaid Mina, 78. And she has spawned generation after generation of loom masters.
“I was in Grade 6 when I learned to weave. Nagbakbak ako ng sinulid, nag-alis ng buto ng cotton...
When you are the Lit Ed of the Graphic, going where the stories and poems are is part of the job—and it is both an honor and a pleasure to be there where the action is.
Keeping any art moving forward takes plenty of...
"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...
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’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...
“I am the place in which something has occurred.”—Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Savage Mind
It was a maverick idea, though not primitive, but on the whole...
The National Museum of the Philippines hosted two important events last July 21—the turnover of Philippine archaeological specimens from the Fowler Museum of the...