She is truly mystical. Of herself she declares, I am as old as the hills and as young as the clouds, and somebody said, as the mist. Baidy Rico Mendoza fashions her clay people out of disparate thingsit...
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...
June 2017--Valino grew up in Pre-war Philippines, in the small town of Aduas, Cabanatuan, Nueva Ecija. He survived the Japanese occupation, preserved as a self-taught young artist, and entered the University of the Phili...
One of 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...
June 2013-- William Gaudinez came to public attention during the 1984 Metrobank Painting Competition. Early in his career, he painted vendors, fiesta and childhood scenes but over time found a way to integrate his paintings,...
AN OVERVIEW OF THE NOVELTY SONGSÂ IN THE PHILIPPINESby: Marianne Aubrey de la Cruz
Novelty means innovation, originality, newness, freshness, uniqueness or even a product of creativity. Novelty songs are...
MANILA, Philipines -- Possessors ordinarily ignore the prayerful’s admonition of detachment from material possessions. With the National Cultural Heritage Act (R.A. No. 10066, signed into Law in March 2010),...
December 2016--This ancestral house was built circa 1870 by Domingo Ilagan and Maria Martinez (who died both in 1903). They had six children: Aniceto Ilagan, Rosario I, Villanueva, Candida I. Barrion, Conception I. Sison...
Allan Cameron, the production designer of the 2006 movie, The Da Vinci Code, starring Tom Hanks and Audrey Tatou, had an interesting task at hand. His job was to recreate the Louvre museum for R...
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...
