Private Collections Art Book Launch

Originally written by

Carmelita Estrallado, Eddie Chua, David Consunji

Charlie Cojuangco

Patrick Reyno

Ester Gabaldon, Ed Liao

Artur Tanco and Manny Zialcita

Eddie Chua, David Consunji

Alexander Tan

Evelyn Dy

Ramon Orlina

Joel Butuyan, Wilmer Hontiveros, Charlie Cojuangco

Jovenal Santiago

Joel Jimenez, Ramon Orlina

Mark Villar

Joey de Leon

Washington SyCip, Carolina Jimenez, Flor Tarriela

Napoleon Abueva

Olivia Yao, Joel Butuyan

Joey de Leon

Julius Babao, Carmelita Yadao

Wilmer Hontiveros

David Consunji, Napoleon Abueva, Cher Abueva

Viviene Co and Patrick Reyno

Rody Sy and Hans Sy

Hans Sy, Anson Lee, Linda Chai and Amaryllis Torres

Olivia Yao, Joel Butuyan, Wilmer Hontiveros, Caling Young

Norma Liongoren, Grace Dimaranan and Joel Butuyan

Jeff Green and Alexander Tan

Louie Ojeda, Gilbert Santos

Wilmer Hontiveros

Joven Santiago, Mario Cruz, Felipe Nazario, Nena Cruz

Daniel de la Cruz, Rorie Arnaez, Linda Chai, Ramon Orlina and Joel Jimenez

Ramon Orlina, Daniel de la Cruz, Joel Jimenez, Celine Simbulan, Viviene Co, Marge Varela and Gio Ortiz-Luis

Gus Albor, Manny Garibay

Grace Dimaranan, Nestor Palabrica

Modern and Contemporary Artist: Roma Valles

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...

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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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Spanish Treasure Lands After Two Hundred Years

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...

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Gallery Owner: Vic Salta of Artistree Gallery

Vic Salta is a legendary art collector in the seventies who opened Artistree gallery in Shangri la Plaza to make first-rate works of art available to learned collectors. He chose not to deal with ordinary piece...

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Marcel Belleza Antonio: The Son, The Man, The Painter (First of Two parts)

The works of Marcel Antonio belong to an expressive and non-literary tradition of storytelling. He began his career in 1983 while still a sophomore at the University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts....

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Mandaluyon, San Juan, Deodato, Salvador and Juan Arellano

March 2016--It was in the best of times, in a silence of pastures and green land. My father, the architect-painter Juan M. Arellano was born in the Tondo district of Manila in 1888. He was schooled at the Ateneo Municipal...

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The History of the Manila Cathedral

November 2011-- The year was 1521, as Ferdinand Magellan set foot in the Philippines, it marked the arrival of Catholicism in the Philippines. The Spanish colonization paved way for the spread of Christianity and the era...

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The Santacruzan Festival

In spite of the glare and blare of the demanding city life lies a moment wherein the only thing you can't help but do, is to breath in the scent of May. One such example is the Flores de Mayo, also known...

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The San Sebastian Church --Gustave Eiffel's Church in the Philippines

Just recently, I was trying too hard to identify a place with unique features that is not only worthy of admiring but also considered artistic. Then I asked myself, What place has not been much written...

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A Critical Essay on Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women’s Magazines (1891-2002)

April 2013--Constructing the Filipina: A History of Women’s Magazines from 1891-2002 by Georgina Reyes Encanto is a first attempt to record the history of Women’s magazines in the historical-feminist perspe...

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