Archive - Arts & Culture

Egai Fernandez, one of the leading figures of Social Realism in the country, may be gone but his works live forever!

Who'd have thought that academics would succumb to the lure of K-drama during the pandemic? Well, they did.

When you see those baldheaded figures, with their big round eyes, elongated and distorted limbs in muted earth colors— almost instinctively, you know they are made by Elmer Borlongan.

In the reality vs. expectation trap, "Like Flowers in Sand" is the expectation -- supportive community, true friends, passion -- that people wish to be reality instead. It is possible with hallyu magic that make flowers bloom even in the most adverse clime.

Celebrating Philippine design, 50 Years of Philippine Design and Beyond presents the evolution of Filipino design over five decades (1970-2023) at the National Museum of Fine Arts until March 3, 2024.

The Philippine-American war started on February 4, 1899 or 125 years ago -- when Private William Walter Grayson fired the first shot.

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.

In many ways, cookbooks serve as windows of a society, tracking cultural shifts and norms.

Musings of the inner self remain a running theme in the works of the four artists where they explore the recesses of the mind and the intricacies of emotions.

No doubt about it. Arthur Espiritu is the country’s busiest tenor starting November 2023 up to 2025 with lead roles in Faust, La Boheme and Lucia di Lammermoor.

What do sopranos Evelyn Mandac, Fides Cuyugan Asencio and Andion Fernandez have in common?

He named himself Doktor Karayom as a reminder to overcome any difficulties that come his way.

When Polish music director Grzegorz Nowak leads the PPO on Friday, Oct. 13 at the Samsung Theater in Circuit Makati, he will surely re-live working with his legendary soloists among them pianist Martha Argerich and cello icon Mstislav Rostropovich.

It only takes three seconds to capture the attention of people passing by and hopefully, awaken their conscience into action.

In celebration of the 125th anniversary of Philippine independence, Ayala Museum has opened an exhibition, Splendor: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero that centers on a singular painting, Hymen, Oh Hyménée! —the first time seen in public for over 130 years.

From the way the Polish conductor projected the essence of the music, one could see musical genius at work.

The Cultural Center of the Philippines observed its 54th year with a new president and a temporary venue (the Samsung Theater for Performing Arts) while the original main theater edifice is undergoing a three-year renovation.

Tsokolate has always been around in our lives, we drink thick tsokolate de batirol, enjoy champorado with dried salty fish, or snack on moron, a rice cake with chocolate inside

PPO new music director Grzegorz Nowak: They are responsive, they connect very well musically and they are more than willing to raise the level of musicianship of the PPO ensemble.