Archive - Arts & Culture

RESBAK, an alliance of progressive artists and media practitioners demand justice for victims and an end to state-sponsored killings in their fifth solidarity event through cultural performances and artistic presentations.

A groundbreaking discovery of the earliest evidence of plant technology use in stone tools in Southeast Asia reveals the amazing ingenuity and resourcefulness of prehistoric peoples.

There is a lot to celebrate as the Halili-Cruz School of Ballet observes its 38th year with a grand showcase concert at the Newport Theater for Performing Arts, Sunday, July 30, at 2 and 7:30 p.m.

For the past several years, tenor Arthur Espiritu has sung Don Pasquale (Ernesto), Traviata (Alfredo), Rigoletto (Duke) with Oper Klosterneuburg in Vienna to generally good notices. Last July 8 opening night of Verdi’s Don Carlo was different.

The United Nations declared 2023 as the International Year of Millets to promote the resilient cereal’s cultivation. Millet is known as dama in Tagalog or kabog (humas) in Visayan.

Ronaldo Mariano is hands-on when it comes to RM Coffee and Tea -- his café on J. Erastain Street in Kamuning, Quezon City

As National Artist for Dance Agnes Locsin prepares for the 41st summer showcase of her dance school July 14, she can’t help but look back on the years dance was taking a foothold in her native Davao City.

Some 548 years after he was born, Michelangelo’s works in the hollowed Sistine Chapel in the Vatican are suddenly available in Pasig City now observing its 450th year.

Perry Sevidal Ballet on its 29th Year presents: A Day of Dance on July 1, 2023, 11 a.m. at Dancing Queen Studio in Makati Cinema Square, Makati City.

Jon Pettyjohn: I have attempted to use my pottery skills to go a little further and say something more.

Filipino tenor Arthur Espiritu is back in Vienna, Austria in the title role of a new Oper Klosterneuburg production of Verdi’s Don Carlo opening on July 8, 2023.

Classical guitarists and singers are on the rebound after being hit hard by the pandemic.

Saturday night (June 17) at the Manila Pianos showroom, clarinetist Jason Marquez surprised local music afficionados with a rarely played program for clarinet so varied and wide-ranging it left an audience asking for more.

Muntadas identified three traded objects or presentés —the mantón de Manila or Manila Shawl, medallions and coins, and ceramics —as his subjective interpretations of connecting with the past and the present of the Philippines.

New printmaking approaches have been created by the artists that include a textile print of a dilapidated house hanging like a giant lantern, using termite soil rubbings to wall print installations.

Audiences from various political fences can easily relate to The Reconciliation Dinner by Floy Quintos.

Friday night (May 12) at the Manila Metropolitan Theater, the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) observed its 50th year with a commemorative concert partly recreating the 1973 inaugural concert.

For the younger generation who have not experienced this dark period in Philippine history, the images “are attestations or historical narratives of atrocities committed to individual, families, and communities.”