Archive - Arts & Culture

The exhibit of rare and original paintings of Filipino masters Juan Luna, Felix Resurreccion Hidalgo, Fernando Amorsolo and Juan Arellano opened to the Iloilo public Monday, Nov. 25 at the University of the Philippines Visayas (UPV) Performance Hall.

In traditional Asia, the floor of a dwelling is a multipurpose space for social gatherings, eating, and sleeping, a cultural practice that still exists.

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.

Manila is visited by a succession of Curtis-educated artists.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Savage Mind, a cultural landmark in Naga City, survived the beatings of typhoon Enteng last September but not the ferocity of storm Kristine.

The music played by Sunlag is inspired by nature, Asian Traditional Music and the European Avant Garde in its textures, colors and compositional processes.

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.