Archive - Arts & Culture

When street art, graffiti, and surrealism converge and fueled by the indelible imprint of Japanese manga, anime, cartoons, and video games—the emergence of Filipino artists engage in pop surrealism remains inevitable.

Kenneth Giron chafed at being called masahista (Filipino for masseuse or masseur) when he was still a student at the University of Santo Tomas (UST). People then didn't really make a distinction between a masahista and a physical therapist.

Roustem Saitkoulov, winner of the Rome Piano Competition and Grand Prix of the Montecarlo World Piano-Masters, replaces Krystian Zimerman in the Feb. 9, season concert of the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO).

On Call Vocals’ saga is also a cautionary tale about dealing with corporate Goliaths, about keeping one’s dignity in spite of shabby treatment.

Ryan Villamael, 36, the foremost Filipino artist working on paper as sculptural medium, presents mostly paper installations in a solo exhibition, Return, My Gracious Hour at the Silverlens Galleries until February 3, 2024.

Patterns, colors, and textures form an organic triumvirate of sculptural clayworks in A Light in Everything, Tessy Pettyjohn’s exhibition at Silverlens Galleries. It runs until 03 February 2024.

The Manilamen’s descendants trace their Filipino heritage through food (adobo, dinuguan, andtuba that some descendants recalled their grandfathers produced), music, and dancing and some Filipino words that have become part of Broome’s lexicon.

The word of the year captures the popular mood, cultural shifts, thoughts, and anxieties of a particular time, reflecting the story of our lives.

Nery's book is a declaration that fence-sitting or being politically ambiguous isn't a life option.

Javier’s A Tree is Not a Forest exhibit is her ode to nature and its complexity, informed by naturalists who fought for plants and animals to be known and respected, in vain.

Celebrating the 94th birthday of Juvenal Sansó, Art Lounge Manila presents Sansó: With Overflowing Abundance until December 4, 2023.

Filipino talents now abound and being cheered not only in native shores but also in Europe and in the United States.