OCTOBER 2008 Alvin Villaruel belonged to that generation of young artists who excites and intensifies the Philippine contemporary art. He began his career in 1998 after receiving his diploma from the Unive...

By the Artesdelasfilipinas Research Team Introduction to the Murillo Velarde Map The Carta Hydrographica y Chorographica de las Islas Filipinas of 1734, more commonly known as the Murillo Velarde map,...

Nonoy Marcelo’s Life and Art by: Christiane L. de la Paz INSERT 5-1 INSERT 10-4

October-November 2010 -- Jeho Bitancor is one of the more important and astute contemporary painters in the country today. In the mid-1980s, he emerged with quasi-surreal paintings as his early explorations in art but ha...

Landscape artists invariably have a love of their environment and this is clearly seen in the works of young artist, Adler Llagas. The rolling hills and mountains of Rizal and Laguna figure largely in hi...

      “What in art gives such remarkable power that it can offend?  What makes people susceptible to being offended?”  Thus spoke Prof. Flaudette May Datuin, takin...

March 2015--When the Spaniards arrived in the Philippines with sword and cross in hand some four centuries ago, they brought with them  the art of religious image-making. The first “santo” on Philippine soil was a...

October 2011--Bob Dylan faced uncomfortable questions Wednesday over several paintings in a New York exhibition by the prolific singer-songwriter that appear to have been copied directly from other artists' photographs. The pa...

SPAIN June-August 2015--In 1955, Federico Aguilar Alcuaz received a scholarship grant to study at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. His instructor soon noticed that he was very talented. He was asked to leave the university , as...

One of the emblematic komiks writers in the Philippines, Jose Zabala Santos contributed to the success of the Golden Age of Philippine Komiks alongside his friends and associates, Francisco Coching, Francisco Reyes and Tony Velasquez. Th...