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

November 2012--Editors today generally spend less time in editing because time is money. This is the observation that novelist Ken Spillman gave at a panel discussion on "Uncut: Issues in Editing" at t...

 July 2022 -- The exhibition explores the often-surprising history of the celebrated Philippine hand-made textiles (jusi and piña), intricate patterns and designs, as well as the thinking and creativity of Patis Tesoro in how she promotes the traditional looming techniques and supporting community-based farming initiatives to create her distinctive dyes, beadwork, embroideries, prints and wea...

June 2012-- Bonifacio Cristobal’s artistic influence was as great as his contemporaries. He began his painting career in 1937 after obtaining a Certificate in Painting from the UP School of Fine Arts. Upon his gr...

There is something beguiling about painting new and spectacular flora. They infiltrate our reception of images and they carry particular poignancy. The sweetness of a nightingale and the tranquility of wh...

      “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...

February-March 2011-- Daniel Coquilla, fondly called Dansoy, is a painter of whom nothing is known yet his body of work are never derided and ignored by critics, curators, historians and collectors alike. He took interest...

 MANILA, Philippines — Archaeologists have unearthed remnants of what they believe is a 1,000-year-old village on a jungle-covered mountaintop in the Philippines with limestone coffins of a type never before found in...

THE NATIONAL ANTHEM The Philippine national anthem is the product of two minds: that of Julian Felipe, pianist and composer, and Jose Palma, a poet and soldier. Although the authors of this immortal piece worked in...

July 2009--In Philippine contemporary art, very few young artists have been the subject of much interest than Ian Quirante, a progressive young artist of his generation, who employs surrealism and automatic painting in his works. Quirante’s treatment of space was not crowded; his comp...

March 2012---MADRID (Reuters) - Coins worth nearly half a billion dollars finally arrived in Spain on Saturday after lying in a sunken warship for more than 200 years and following a five-year legal battle between the Sp...