Celebrating Botanical Art Worldwide 2025, ANI: Our Assets, Natural Heritage, and Cultural Identity is an exhibition by the National Museum of the Philippines (Museum of Natural History, Gallery XII, 2F) and the Philippine Botanical Art Society until November 2025
“Karne” gets under one’s skin, leading one to wonder why Filipinos perpetually “simmer” in crises. Resilience is laudable until it isn’t. “Karne” runs at the FEU Center for the Arts Studio on Sept. 11–13, 18–20, 25–27; Oct. 2–4, 9–11, 16–18, 23–25, 30; and Nov. 6–8. The show starts at 6:30 p.m.For tickets, connect with FTG on Facebook: Far Eastern University Theater Guild, Instagram and TikTok: @feutheaterguildofficial, and Twitter/X: @ftg1934.
Researchers found a human grave on Ilin Island dated around 5,000 years ago, with the body in a fetal position and covered with limestone slabs, similar to the flexed burials found across Southeast Asia that suggested “shared ideological and social influences...”.
The Ortigas Foundation Library presents an exhibit titled Early Philippine Picture Postcards 1900-1930s until August 10, 2025. Its address: 2nd Floor, McKinley Parking Bldg., Greenhills, San Juan.
In the Philippines, art deco found its way through the architects who had studied in America and Europe such as Juan Arellano, Andres Luna de San Pedro, Juan F. Nakpil, Tomas Mapua, Pablo Antonio, and Fernando Ocampo. They incorporated local motifs in their art deco designs of theaters and cinemas, hotels, apartments, mansions, schools, and government buildings.
A major exhibition of Baguio art, Gongs. Smoke. Blood.Earth explores “the history and cultural contexts” of Baguio art since the founding of the Baguio Art Guild in 1986. With the participation of 30 artists at the Ateneo Art Gallery, the exhibit will run until 20 July 2025. Kawayan de Guia and Nona Garcia are guest curators.
Shamaine openly admires Floy Quintos as a genius playwright who gave actors not just complex and rich characters but a guide in knowing themselves as Filipinos.
Jose P. Alcantara (1911-2005), described as “the last maestro of traditional wood carving,” is best known for his masterpiece, a large-scale relief narra wood panels that used to adorn the Philam Life Auditorium in Ermita, Manila. Today, Alcantara’s masterpiece is displayed at the National Museum of the Philippines.
Tenor Arthur Espiritu triumphed as The Prince in the Dvorak opera Rusalka with soprano Serenad Uyar in the title role staged middle of May at Opera de Massy, the youngest opera house in France. What’s remarkable about his performance is that the tenor sang the part not in French or German but in Czech!
In truth, between the Duterte arrest in March, across the 2025 campaign, and through to the present, a content bucket that has constantly been filled is that one that speaks of Duterte as the Pinoy every man, the Juan dela Cruz, who became President. This is further dispersed across smaller content buckets, each one filled deliberately and strategically, and then mass dropped on Tiktok accounts that grow almost by the week.
