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The M's "Elusive Edge" Outlines the Philippine Mark in Abstraction
Elusive Edge offers a glimpse of how the expressions of abstraction in Philippine modern art continue to inspire dynamism and fluidity through the decades.
SandBox Fest 2023 Blurs the Lines Between Audience, Performer, Friend
Three years after Sandbox Fest 2020 came to an abrupt halt, The Sandbox Collective returns with a twin bill experience featuring Duncan Macmillan plays Every Brilliant Thing and Lungs, underlining the inherent intimacy of live theatre after three years.
Silverlens Launches Carbon Neutral Public Art Residency on Philippine Island
Lubi Art Residency celebrates island biodiversity through sustainable practices and locally-sourced found materials.
Traversing Borders
Museum MACAN presents the first-ever museum survey exhibition by Isabel and Alfredo Aquilizan.
NY-based Filipino artist Sean Go brings his pop art universe to Manila
Known for his cheeky pop art style, Sean Go’s works in Fallacies of Fantasy take inspiration from childhood icons and playfully infuse them with modern pop culture, creating a whole new idealized abstraction of heroes, villains, fairytale endings, and even hope.
MO_Space’s ‘Live Take Feed Console Play’ Presents a Long View of the Moving Image
Time is experienced not as a succession of singular moments, but as an interpenetrating, organic whole: the past is never really the past, but cuts through the present.
Philippine Modern and Contemporary Art Takes Centerstage Once Again
MoCAF excites with a more dynamic agenda this 2023.
The Artist is Alive
In her quest to break free from her predilection for a death wish, Jasper Castro has found her purpose through art.
Shell’s 56th NSAC clicks photography as a new category
The artistic voices of young artists soar in Shell Pilipinas’ 56th National Students Arts Competition (NSAC) with the theme, “GalÍng Pinoy, Galing Pinoy.”
Jett Ilagan Reveals the Sound of the Metro
Multi-disciplinary artist Jett Ilagan reveals the sound of the metro in his latest exhibition ‘Animated_Landscape’ at the National Commission for Culture and the Arts Gallery.
RED: The Art of Mark Rothko in Crisis
RED is back on the Philippine stage for a limited 10-show run until 18 June 2023 at the PETA Theatre Center. The re-staging sees Bart Guingona reprising his role as the egoistic abstract expressionist Mark Rothko, with JC Santos playing the naive fictional assistant, Ken.
Printmaking Offers a Wellspring of Possibilities in Vargas Museum’s ‘Parched earth, ardent spring’
The exhibition was best approached with conceptual groundwork only as a secondary concern. Instead, the medium took center stage, positioned by the exhibition as a “primary ground where ideas consistently and ardently spring.”