Yvonne Quisumbing’s exhibit titled Sanctuary until Feb. 5 at Silverlens Galleries, Makati features medicinal plants that grow abundantly in a farmland in Barangay Lugo, Borbon, Cebu. It is a sanctuary for birds as well as for the artist in the last 15 years.
Points and Endings is Keka Enriquez’s first solo exhibition in Manila since 2008, showing some of her early works made in Manila and her latest oil on canvas paintings created in San Francisco, her home city in the last 20 years. It is on view at Silverlens Galleries, Makati until February 5, 2025.
The Sto. Niño (Child Jesus) has its own devoted following among Filipinos who celebrate his feast day every third Sunday of January. Photos and videos by Bullit Marquez for VERA Files
The Cultural Center of the Philippines (CCP) has announced the recipients of its 2024 Thirteen Artists Awards (TAA). They are Catalina Africa, Denver Garza, Russ Ligtas, Ella Mendoza, Henrielle Baltazar Pagkaliwangan, Issay Rodriguez, Luis Antonio Santos, Joshua Serafin, Jel Suarez, Tekla Tamoria, Derek Tumala,Vien Valencia, and Liv Vinluan.
From the weight and thickness of Pablo A. Tariman’s Encounters in the Arts alone and the starry names that fill the contents page and photo folio, the author has veritably compiled his life’s work. And what a compilation it is, with a knockout cover featuring international pianist and national treasure Cecile Licad and art patron Nedy Tantoco in the inset.
On extended run until Jan. 8, 2025 at the basement of the centrally located Baguio Convention Center, “Naked City: Futures from the Crossroad,” the visual arts exhibition that’s part of the recent Ibagiw Creative Festival, indeed strips from the city all those romantic, nostalgic notions and reinstates the significance of the once shunted indigenous peoples and culture.
Filmmaker Carlitos Siguion-Reyna who just arrived in New York managed his jetlag and went straight to Carnegie Hall. “Saw a wonderful recital of Cecile Licad. The pianist again did the music world, the Philippines, and herself much honor through her deeply personal readings of a rich, diverse, and interesting program generously supplemented by two encores. Hoping for more concerts of her again soon in Manila.”
Celebrating our Christmas tradition, the Philippine Postal Corporation has released special stamps titled Simbang Gabi sa Ilog Pasig. The Philippines is one of the only few countries in the world that practice the nine-day dawn masses before Christmas.
The exhibit of rare and original paintings of Filipino masters Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fernando Amorsolo and Juan Arellano opened to the Iloilo public Monday, Nov. 25 at the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) Performance Hall.
In Richard Buxani’s most recent solo exhibit, Magic in Metal: The Art of Richard Buxani, at the UST Museum, Manila, he presented selected works from 2009 to 2024, showing his versatility in metal sculptures.
