Archive - Arts & Culture

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.”

Klyde Ledamo will perform Janacek, whose music is not often heard in this country or anywhere else, Liszt’s transcriptions of various opera music, a Beethoven opus and a Chopin fantasy on May 27 at 7 p.m. at the Ayala Museum, Makati Ave. and De la Rosa St., Makati City.

Overall, Bose’s work expressed a strong sense of Filipino roots, particularly its indigeneity and folk sensibilities.

This Gaston house in Silay (now Balay Negrense) is extra special for me.

Beyond physical beauty, tattoos represent inner strength and character that one carries to the grave and the afterlife.

The dancers of ABT Studio Company dazzled Manila balletomanes Thursday night at the Samsung Performing Arts Theater in the new Makati business district.

The summer edition of the Metro Manila Film Festival (MMFF) ends April 18 with varied and more substantial offering than its Christmas edition.

Iglesia: The Heritage Churches of Iloilo is a mixed media exhibit on Iloilo’s old churches at the National Museum of the Philippines Western Visayas by Cristhom Setubal of San Joaquin, Iloilo. It includes the churches of San Joaquin, Miagao, Guimbal, Tigbauan,Molo, Jaro, Pavia, Santa Barbara, Cabatuan, Dingle, and Dumangas as well as the Jaro Belfry and the old Oton Church that no longer exists.