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February 17, 2026

Artes de las Filipinas welcomed the year 2022 with its latest publication

An Exhibition of the Design Legacy of Salvacion Lim Higgins
An Exhibition of the Design Legacy of Salvacion Lim Higgins
September 2022 – The fashion exhibition of Salvacion Lim Higgins hogged the headline once again when a part of her body of work was presented to the general public. The display is chic, refreshing, modern, contempora...
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THE PASTILLAS PAPER CUT TRADITION
The art of making the pabalat or pastillas wrappers has transformed in recent years from being a local, folk tradition into a popular art. Besides adding flair to the sweet pastillas de leche made from...
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Cenon Rivera: Artist and Professor of Modern Art
Cenon Rivera: Artist and Professor of Modern Art
April-May 2012-- Cenon Rivera, a painter of note, began his art career in the 1950s and later made significant contributions in Philippine art. In 1952, he pioneered in graphic art by making distinctive eighty differ...
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Jose Zabala Santos (1911-1985)
Jose Zabala Santos (1911-1985)
March 2013--Jose Zabala Santos or “Mang Pepe” to his neighbors in Kuatro Kantos, Malabon, was born in Calumpit, Bulacan on July 20, 1911. He acquired his early drawing skills from his mother whose avocation i...
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Alfredo Roces: Man of Arts and Letters (First of Two Parts)
Alfredo Roces: Man of Arts and Letters (First of Two Parts)
January 2016--Alfredo Roces holds a prominent place in the history of Philippine art. He is a painter who started a figurative style but soon began to amalgamate Expressionism, Fauvism and Impressionism in his paintings. As...
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Jason Moss' Unabashed Narrative
Jason Moss' Unabashed Narrative
April 2011--Jason Moss has been around the art circle since 1997. He graduated with a fine arts degree from the University of Santo Tomas and soon started work as an illustrator and then had stints as an animator, TV...
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Stuttgart museum returns looted medieval masterpiece
Stuttgart museum returns looted medieval masterpiece
March 2013--The Staatsgalerie Stuttgart has returned Virgin and Child, a 15th-century painting attributed to the Master of Flémalle (1375-1444), to the estate of Max Stern, a German-born Jewish dealer who fled the Nazis...
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Rody Herrera's Nationalistic Legacy
Rody Herrera's Nationalistic Legacy
July 2014--Influenced by Fernando Amorsolo’s use of impressionistic brushstrokes and Botong Francisco’s carefully modelled form, color and movement, Rody Herrera’s historical sensibilities commenced when...
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Noel Soler Cuizon's Gesamtkunstwerk and Everything in Between
Noel Soler Cuizon's Gesamtkunstwerk and Everything in Between
April-May 2017—The public exhibition of Noel Soler Cuizon’s works began in 1987 when he was a member of Hulo, a group of alumni students of the Philippine Women’s University who explored non-traditional...
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Dominador Castañeda
Dominador Castañeda
November 2015--At the age of six his father presented him a French book of drawing lesson: and the child sat down and did the lessons over and over with crayons. Then his father took him to the School of Fine Arts on R. Hi...
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