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Tilly’s birth will do us part: AI actor and the doomed commerce of inauthenticity

Previous era of the arts had subversiveness, vulgarity, and blasphemy as its main problems. Now its inauthenticity—the single remaining line that shouldn’t be crossed. In Western theater, the ancient Greek philosopher Aristotle discussed “Thespis of Icaria” in his foundational literary work, Poetics. Thespis is...

Anatomy of a repeating scandal: Lessons in investigating a failed 1926 public works project

Some 96 years ago, on June 12, 1929, the Graphic magazine published an article titled The Tinkers’ Dam by M. San Martin.

When there is no Planet B, how do you get to point C?

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.”

El Colegio De San Ildefonso presents “The Acapulco–Manila Galleon: We Are the Pacific: The World That Emerged From The Tropics”

For two and a half centuries, from 1565 to 1815, the Acapulco–Manila navigation route created a network of exchanges that transformed life on both shores of the Pacific. More than a commercial link, it wove economic, social, political, and spiritual relationships that left...

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,...

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Millions venerate Saint Padre Pio relic, says priest

Millions of Filipinos went out of their way to take part in the veneration of the heart relic of Padre Pio, an Italian saint,...

The road taken: Transforming Biñan in 365 days

Only 34 kilometers south of Manila, Biñan City in Laguna province has served as a suburban residential community of Metro Manila, accessible via the...

12 years later, revisiting Marcel

The years snap back to the past like a terribly stretched rubber band suddenly released to hit the wrist. It’s been 12 years, Marcel....

Ricaredo Demetillo: Poet of Panay epics

It was June 1985. Ricaredo Demetillo, 65, poet, verse playwright, literary critic, essayist and author of one novel, had just retired from his teaching...