Artes de las Filipinas New Website

Artes de las Filipinas New Website

February 2009 – Two months short of its fourth anniversary, Artesdelasfilipinas.com is proud to launch its new layout. The site has been reogranized for better article categorization. The new site aims to offer new features in the coming weeks such as a search engine and options to print, email or bookmark an article. Artes de las Filipinas renews its partnership with EACOMM Corporation for providing us its award-winning DO-CMS Content Management System for the new site.

The site has been designed not to break any existing links to previous articles. However, if something has been overlooked and you encountered a broken link ,please notify us at info@artesdelasfilipinas.com so we may act on it right away.

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Art Commentary: They Come and Go

I just realized that I have been teaching for almost eight years now. In the beginning, I thought it would be easy as I promise myself that I would only be teaching for five years. I was wrong, I never...

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Book Review: Edifice Complex: Power, Myth, and the Marcos State Architecture by Gerard Lico

The book is about Marcosian Architecture. The author started each chapter with quotes from different scholars as an introduction to his discussions. The book is very much influenced by Michel Foucaults disco...

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Ramon Estella: A Purveyor of Modern Art

March 2012--Ramon Estella first made a name for himself as a writer and director for film, television and radio during the 1950s before having his solo exhibition in 1959 at the Philippine Art Gallery. Working together with Hern...

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HGallery Owner: Evita Sarenas of Finale Art Gallery

The most respected and most experienced among gallery owners in the Philippines, Evita Sarenas has earned the reputation for launching the careers of many young and promising artists in the Philippines. She s...

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The Manunggul Jar as a Vessel of History

"…the work of an artist and master potter."--Robert Fox 27th April 1995—I was 11 years old when I visited the National Museum -- the repository of our cultural, natural and historical heritage. I remembered the majesty of cl...

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Trying to understand why art can offend, and why artists should continue to be free

“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...

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Fears Grow that Greek Art Market is Riddled with Forgeries

March 2012--Athens, Greece--A legal case brought against Sotheby’s by a major Greek collector could be the tip of the iceberg A major Greek collector has taken Sotheby’s to court in Athens over two alleged fake paintings at...

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Roberto Chabet at West Gallery and Finale Art File

August 2014-- This year marks the 50th anniversary of Roberto Chabet as an artist. To commemorate this milestone, a series of exhibitions is running until January 2012. It began with highly anticipated show...

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The Filipino People Before the Arrival of the Spaniards

April-May 2016--Position of Tribes – on the Spaniards, the population of the Philippines seems to have been distributed by tribes in much the same manner as at present. Then, as now, the Bisayas occupied the centra...

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Lucian Freud Says Thank You to the Nation with a Corot Painting

February 2013--The late artist Lucian Freud has left a treasured painting by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot as a thank you to Great Britain for welcoming his family when they arrived as refugees in 1933....

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