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The hook, the hustle, the hurt: Inside the Philippine crochet boom

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...

Thank you, Universe: bitagcol celebrates a 30-year journey of traversing fashion, photography, design, and art

It has been three decades since bitagcol’s first foray into fashion. Her creative journey began in 1996 on the runways and on the set...

Artist, NCUC’s architecture and stained glass lost to fire

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...

What this local art festival left behind

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...

Larry Alcala 100 Years: Tribute Exhibit & 100 Komikeros

In celebration of the centenary of National Artist for Visual Arts Larry Alcala, the Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF) 2026, in partnership with the...

PICOF returns this July as an open festival

The Philippine International Comics Festival (PICOF) returns on July 10–12, 2026 at Ayala Malls The 30th, Pasig City, bringing together Filipino and international creators, creatives, publishers, readers,...

‘Let us not to the forgetting of our tales’

Indulge me for a while and let me make the roughest of conjectures: The lowest possible estimate for the total number of oral literary...

Portrait by premier Filipino painter Damian Domingo rediscovered, went unnoticed for nearly 200 years

EXCLUSIVE: An important 1833 portrait by Damian Domingo, considered to be the father of Philippine painting, went unnoticed for centuries and has now been...

How a CCP scholar dances beyond the spotlight

More than a movement, dance is a discipline, a form of self-discovery, and a lifelong commitment to sharing a piece of oneself with others....

ASEAN strengthens regional cooperation for the protection of cultural heritage

The National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), through its Cultural Properties Regulation Division, reopens the ASEAN Regional Dialogue: Building Foundations for Cooperation...