Archive - Arts & Culture

Catch the Venice Biennale in Taft, Manila! A restaging of the 2015 Philippine Pavilion, Tie a String Around The World, is on show at the College of St Benilde, De La Salle University until August 4, 2018.

Soprano Jasmin Salvo started singing pop songs when she was just five. Because she liked singing with the karaoke, her parents enrolled her at a music studio. From there she started joining singing contests.

There are those who are tempted to read Jenny Romero Llaguno’s first fiction collection as a veiled biography of her and her late husband Frankie’s lives together. Our answer to that is, where else can one draw stories but from the life that one has intimately known or the lives of others that one has observed with soul-piercing scrutiny?

The 48-member Manila Symphony Junior Orchestra under Jeffrey Solares made another history when they bagged the first prize Sunday July 8 in the 12th edition of the Summa Cum Laude Festival in Vienna.

A cornucopia of Philippine prints is on display at the Cultural Center of the Philippines in celebration of the 50th anniversary of the Association of Pinoyprintmakers, formerly known as Philippine Association of Printmakers. With prints made by mostly established artists, it is a veritable roll call of who's who in Philippine contemporary art. Entitled Tirada 50 Years of Philippine Printmaking1968-2018, the exhibition runs until July 15, 2018.

The LA-based Filipino composer Nilo B. Alcala is having a ball with selections from his choral works getting more exposure in the recent CCP concert of the Philippine Madrigal Singers.

Today's Manila is the world's most densely populated city filled with loud jeepneys, carcinogenic fumes, and filthy sidewalks — a far cry from its fame as the "Pearl of the Orient Seas" downgraded further to the inglorious title of "the gates of hell."

There is a bit of history and nostalgia as the concert series, American Songbook (A Retrospect), unfolded in Baguio City over the weekend at the University of the Cordillera and UP Baguio’s Teatro Amianan.

They used to be the main feature in fiestas and rituals. They still are but their platform is no longer limited to tables. They are now in laboratories as subject of studies on organic meat for the health-conscious.

New CCP chair Margie Moran Floirendo is thankful for her early exposure to the arts and thinks that should be encouraged by parents for their growing children.

A ticket to a typical concert of the 92-year old Manila Symphony Orchestra (MSO) would cost an exorbitant P5,000 if there were no corporate or individual sponsors, patrons and donors or season subscribers.

Tenor Radnel Ofalsa, 22, is this year’s top winner of the Jovita Fuentes Vocal Competition but he admits his earlier fascination for pop singing.

The title of the group show at Eskinita Gallery, “Sa Panahon ng Damuho,” sounds something lifted out of the Book of Revelations.

National Artist for Literature Cirilo F. Bautista died at 76 on Sunday.

There is a recurring image of the Filipino Maestra as one watched actor Shamaine Centenera Buencamino portray the role of Maestra Adela in The Kundiman Party by Floy Quintos.

From their photos alone, it’s obvious that the classically trained singers set to perform in the concert “The American Songbook” are all driven millennials.

The recently concluded 2018 Menuhin Competition in Geneva, Switzerland yielded two brilliant prizewinners ages 10 and 11 -- Christian Li and Chloe Chua -- in the junior competition and with an 18-year old Armenian -- Diana Adamyan -- getting the top prize in the senior division.

Stories of music legends meeting Filipino artists are many and they prove that classical music is not the monopoly of Western musicians.

After 14 years of absence in Manila, 24 large trapunto paintings of Pacita Abad (1946-2004) are on display — hanging in the almost nine-meter ceiling of the Museum of Contemporary Art and Design (MCAD), De La Salle College of St. Benilde, for everyone to see, decipher, and ruminate.

Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu re-explores the bel canto territory with a debut role as Gualtiero in Bellini’s Il Pirata opening at Theater St. Gallen in Switzerland on April 28, 2018.

A constant in Aze Ong’s past and current yarn art exhibits is the reference to light. To her, light signals experiences and the lessons learned from them.

A heart-shaped fossilized tooth of a megalodon, one of the largest predators to have lived on earth, has been found in a village in Maribojoc, putting the coastal town in the central Philippines on the world map of the extinct giant shark’s prehistoric presence.

TIGBAUAN, Iloilo – The public is assured of stable supply of bangus all-year round, thanks to the technology that the Southeast Asian Fisheries Development Center (SEAFDEC) Aquaculture Department (AQD) based here has developed and continues to improve that enables mother bangus to produce fry at the mature age 35.

The exhibition, An Extraordinary Eye for the Ordinary, is a survey of Elmer Borlongan's body of works, in his 25 years as an artist. More than 200 art works, mostly in oil and acrylic, are on display at the Metropolitan Museum of Manila. Another room is devoted to Borlongan's sketches and drawings that are mostly studies of his paintings, reflecting his exquisite skill as a draughtsman.