October 2013--A painting by Zeng Fanzhi sold for US$23.3 million at a Sotheby's auction on Saturday night in Hong Kong, setting a new record price for a work by an Asian contemporary artist.  Titled “The Last Su...

SPAIN June-August 2015--In 1955, Federico Aguilar Alcuaz received a scholarship grant to study at the Academia de Bellas Artes de San Fernando in Madrid. His instructor soon noticed that he was very talented. He was asked to leave the university , as...

January 2012--Along with its search for wealth, the Spanish colonizers made it a top mission to spread Catholicism in the Philippines. And to broaden the reach of Christianity, a place for worship is needed to bring the cong...

“Some artists think I’m crazy to walk a mile carrying my stuff from where my vehicle was parked, I just want to avoid people once in a while. I go every Sunday morning to this place I call “my...

January 2009 -- It has become a commonplace in contemporary art that a work has to be compositionally busy or wisecracks in a variety of forms. In Roma Valles' case, her technically ambitious but masterfully works, much o...

March 2013--Magkalinawan na tayo sa simulat simula pa. Hindi ito ang last full show ni Danilo Dalena. At lingid sa kaalaman ng  karamihan, naging abala naman siya gayong tila nanahimik matapos ang makalawang survey ng mga ob...

August 2012--Home Body Memory: Filipina Artists in the Visual Arts, 19th Century to Present by Flaudette May Datuin, PhD. is a recount of the history of Filipina artist from during the 19th Century until the present time on which t...

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...

Austria started his teaching career in the University of Sto. Tomas in 1969. Students who knew Austria when he was still a professor describe their experience with Austria, Takot kami ma-late sa klase ni Si...

January 2014--At first nobody wanted them. Van Gogh painted four images of sunflowers in a pot, and then three copies that depart in many details from the originals. Together, they amount to an iconic body of work, repre...