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February 17, 2026

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

If art journalism is in trouble, what about publishing?
If art journalism is in trouble, what about publishing?
Jamie Camplin is the managing director of Thames & Hudson, a publishing firm based in London, England. He wrote an opinion piece for the June 2009 Art Newspaper that may interest general art readers and m...
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Earliest Copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado
Earliest Copy of Mona Lisa found in Prado
February 2012--A copy of the Mona Lisa has been discovered in the Prado which was painted in Leonardo’s studio—created side by side with the original that now hangs in the Louvre. This sensational find will tran...
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Art Collector Reggie Quimbo
Art Collector Reggie Quimbo
I interviewed Reggie Quimbo over the phone a few days before this conversation. When we met in his residence, he took me to the two-floored space, which serves both as his familys ancestral house and his d...
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Photo-Art Artist: Alvin Villaruel
Photo-Art Artist: Alvin Villaruel
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...
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Porfirio Castaneda on His Tatay, Dominador Castaneda
Porfirio Castañeda on His Tatay, Dominador Castañeda by: Christiane L. de la Paz March 2016–Dominador Castañeda spent his early education at the Escuela de Bellas Artes in Quiapo, Manila. In 1924,...
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Book Review: Edifice Complex: Power, Myth, and the Marcos State Architecture by Gerard Lico
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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A Guide to Malacañan's Presidential Museum and Library
A Guide to Malacañan's Presidential Museum and Library
July 2012--The Presidential Museum and Library is located in Kalayaan Hall, originally built in 1921 during the American colonial era as the Executive Building and today a wing of Malacañan Palace, the historic and official seat...
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Farewell (Or Underground With) Material Possessions
Farewell (Or Underground With) Material Possessions
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),...
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Emerging Artist Robert Deniega
Emerging Artist Robert Deniega
Robert Deniega “Datu’s Eldest Wife” Watercolor 24′ x 18′ 2002 Private Collection EMERGING ARTIST: ROBERT DENIEGA  by: Christiane L. de la Paz “Hindi lahat nakukuha sa experience. Kung saan ka masaya at...
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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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