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January 18, 2026

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

How to turn a manuscript into a bestseller
How to turn a manuscript into a bestseller
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...
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Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time
Guillermo Estrella Tolentino: A Classic of His Time
May 2011-- Guillermo Estrella Tolentino was born in Malolos, Bulacan on 24 July 1890.  He was the fourth of eight children.  His father was a tailor, whose only artistic trait is the love of playing the guitar. ...
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Book Review: Philippine Ancestral Houses Fernando Zialcita and Martin Tinio
Book Review: Philippine Ancestral Houses Fernando Zialcita and Martin Tinio
The two hundred and sixty-three pages of the coffee table book, Philippine Ancestral Houses, is a richly illustrated history and analysis of the bahay na bato - - how it came about, where, when, and how i...
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Seeing Through the Canvas of Simon Saulog
Seeing Through the Canvas of Simon Saulog
June 2011-- I first met Simon Saulog in 1983. I was then a young misfit college student who wanted to become a visual artist. At that time, I thought I have given up on my dream until I met Simon Saulog who rekindled my pas...
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The Angono Petroglyphs
The Angono Petroglyphs
The Angono PetroglyphS by: Teta Limcangco     The Angono Petroglyph is a recent archeological breakthrough during the 80’s found in the mountainside of Angono and Binangonan by Carlo “Botong” Francisco....
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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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Yasmin Sison's Unflinching Art
Yasmin Sison's Unflinching Art
April 2010 -- In the early years of her artistic direction, Yasmin Sison began experimenting with abstract expressionism. Utilizing a rich knowledge of form and color, her gestural paintings included bright and splashy c...
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Renato Rocha: Building Modern Sculptures
Renato Rocha: Building Modern Sculptures
December 2013--From 1960-1965, Renato Rocha had a winning streak in various art competitions including the University of the Philippines Student Catholic Action Art Competition (UP SCA) and the National Student Art Compe...
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Jerson Samson's Doon Po Sa Amin
Jerson Samson's Doon Po Sa Amin
November-December 2014--Jerson Samson, during his freshman year at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts (UP CFA), started making a name for himself when his entries, Tukso and Nakaligtaang Kalikasan were f...
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Dex Fernandez As He Likes It
Dex Fernandez As He Likes It
August-September 2017 -- Dex Fernandez began his art career in 2007, painting a repertoire of phantasmagoric images inhabited by angry mountains, robots with a diminutive sidekick, triangle-shaped flying saucers, androgy...
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