Here’s to life, here’s to Vida’s art-making
Vida Doria concentrated on flora, a reaction to her childhood and youth spent in coastal Pangasinan “where there were no flowers, except violet water lilies we would see on the fishponds or at wakes
Vida Doria concentrated on flora, a reaction to her childhood and youth spent in coastal Pangasinan “where there were no flowers, except violet water lilies we would see on the fishponds or at wakes
Raffy T. Napay has been stitching threads in a variety of colors and patterns for over a decade now. He used to work in oil paints but a serious allergy led him to switch to thread and scrap cloth, materials plentiful around him. Later in 2010, when working on a piece for an art competition, he asked his mother, a seamstress, to teach him how to sew.
Even as the good reviews are pouring in from both audience and cultural cognoscenti, National Artist for Literature Virgilio Almario did a unique tribute to Cecile Licad with a poem after the pianist’s landmark performance at the Manila Metropolitan Theater March 19.
Painter Jose Ramon “Joven” Ignacio is a naturalist to the core. He doesn’t need to go birding in far-flung places or deep in the forests to observe flora at their wildest and best to capture his subjects. But into nature and art he has always been.
A whirlwind of color, color, and more color hits you in Pacita Abad’s Love is Like a Heatwave, a recent exhibition at Silverlens Galleries, celebrating the 20th anniversary of Circles in My Mind (Oct. 2003-Jan. 2004, CCP), Abad’s final exhibition before her death in December 2004.
If you have ever visited Iloilo City, you would have surely brought back some biscocho, kinihad, or even pinasugbo, dried saba slices coated in caramelized sugar, and wrapped in a white paper cone.
Cecile Licad makes her second appearance at the Manila Metropolitan Theater on Tuesday, March 19, 7 p.m. with the Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra under the baton of Maestro Grzegorz Nowak
The series is gender-inclusive, with the men’s stories woven into the tapestry of suffering and healing.
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.