Archive - Arts & Culture Year all all 2025 2024 2023 2022 2021 2020 2019 2018 2017 2016 2015 2014 2013 2012 2011 2010 Items per page 18 12 18 24 30 Arts & Culture From icebox to pizza oven: Modernizing the Filipino kitchen In traditional Asia, the floor of a dwelling is a multipurpose space for social gatherings, eating, and sleeping, a cultural practice that still exists. By R.C. Ladrido | Nov 27, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Diomedes Saraza Jr overwhelms in PPO’s Music Movies Magic Friday night (Nov. 22) at the Samsung Theater in Circuit Makati, violinist Diomedes Saraza, Jr. wore many hats in the ecstatically received Music Movies Magic concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Gerard Salonga. By Pablo A. Tariman | Nov 24, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Elgar at Samsung Theater, Schubert at Ayala Museum Manila is visited by a succession of Curtis-educated artists. By Pablo A. Tariman | Nov 20, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Richard Buxani: Inner vibrance in metal 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. By R. C. Ladrido | Nov 15, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Angeli Benipayo shines Music lovers had a rare musical treat of Filipino zarzuelas and opera by the UP Symphony Orchestra Nov. 8 at the state university theater in Diliman. The backstage suspense was that soprano Angeli Benipayo took the place of a vocally indisposed Stefanie Quintin just three days before the concert. By Pablo A. Tariman | Nov 12, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Pre-Christmas shows of Cecile Licad and Arthur Espiritu Before he leaves for Europe, Arthur Espiritu is slated to appear in a special concert at the Manila Pianos on Saturday, Nov. 16 at 7 p.m. in between singing Rodolfo in La Boheme at Cologne Opera in Germany until the new year. By Pablo A. Tariman | Nov 9, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Fr. Gustavo Gutiérrez, O.P.: Challenging our conscience Amidst Latin America’s inequality and dictatorships in the 1960s and beyond, Gustavo Gutiérrez‘s Liberation Theology argued that the church had a duty to push for basic political and structural changes that would end poverty. By R.C.Ladrido | Nov 7, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture In a time of genocide: Jose Tence Ruiz, ever provocative In Jose Tence Ruiz’s latest solo exhibition titled The Carbon Footprint of the Stoic Heroic, nine new works are on display —an artist’s searing response in a time of the intentional eradication of Palestine and its people; the crisis of migration; the repressive power of the Church and the State; and the complicity of the powers-that-be everywhere, all at once. The Carbon Footprint exhibit runs until Nov. 16 at Silverlens Galleries, Makati. By R.C. Ladrido | Nov 2, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture ‘Kristine’ savages Bicol Savage Mind, a cultural landmark in Naga City, survived the beatings of typhoon Enteng last September but not the ferocity of storm Kristine. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 26, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture New music thrives in Pampanga The music played by Sunlag is inspired by nature, Asian Traditional Music and the European Avant Garde in its textures, colors and compositional processes. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 22, 2024 | 7-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Request Sa Radyo turns Samsung Theater into Theater of silence The show was a virtual Theater of Silence reminiscent of Andrea Bocelli’s concert venue called Teatro del Silenzio in the Tuscan hills of Italy. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 21, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture A new twist on something old: Reviving natural dyes Many ethnolinguistic groups in the country use three sources of colorants: yellow ginger or turmeric for yellow dyes, morinda or noni tree for red dyes, and indigo for blue-black dyes. By R.C.Ladrido | Oct 20, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Tributes pour for Gilopez Kabayao, internment set Oct. 19 It is a week of music and memories as friends, musicians and Iloilo city officials including civic organizations pay tribute to violinist and music missionary Gilopez Kabayao in the last days of viewing at the Gegato-Abecia Memorial Homes at Tanza, Iloilo City. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 17, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture The Anne Boleyn in the hit musical ‘Six’ is from Bicol Fil-American singing actor Yna Tresvalles is only 23 but she is playing the role of Anne Boleyn who was married to King Henry VIII at age 31 on January 25, 1533. She was later beheaded for high treason on May 19, 1536. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 16, 2024 | 5-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Opera and cinema magic in Baguio City Baguio City’s music lovers savored rare vocal treats during the weekend with two back-to-back concerts featuring the magic of cinema through their music and a balanced program of opera and Neapolitan favorites. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 15, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture No plastics: Recalling the early Filipino kitchen Can you ever imagine living and cooking without electricity or running water? For a very long time, Filipinos cooked with firewood and charcoal in their smoky kitchen. By R.C. Ladrido | Oct 14, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture Music, movies and the Filipino artists After a successful season opening concert of the Philippine Philharmonic under Maestro Grzegorz Nowak, the national orchestra goes breezy and light in an evening of film music with Gerard Salonga on November 22, 2024, 7:30 p.m. at the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts. By Pablo A. Tariman | Oct 11, 2024 | 4-minute read KEEP READING Arts & Culture When an opening concert strikes a common chord One could safely conclude the PPO has risen to high expectations with Richard Strauss’s tone poem Ein Heldenleben, Op. 40, which elicited a screaming standing ovation. By Pablo A. Tariman | Sep 30, 2024 | 6-minute read KEEP READING Posts pagination Newer posts 1 2 3 4 5 … 74 Older posts