October 2009 -- Private Collections is a book about private art collecting and collectors in the Philippines published in 2009. It tells the passions and visions of thirty Filipino collectors and follows their tastes in art - whether in the masters or the contemporary. Written and designed for a general readership, each of the thirty collectors is...

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 museum publishers. Camplin raises the question: if art book publishing is to remain vital, how d...

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 compositions encompass the entire picture surface equally in all places and his use of strongly graphic an...

Private art collectors and professionals who wish to explore the world of museums, galleries, archaeological artifacts, relics, and mementos will benefit from the Collections Management Seminar Series of the Yuchengco Museum and the Lopez Memorial Museum. The series kicks off on June 18 and 19, 2009 with a basic...

Take a look at the masterpieces of young Filipino artists. Feel their sentiments. Learn how the environment can inspire human beings, and how humanity can protect the environment through their creations. Experience Filipino creativity as the Metrobank Foundation showcases to the public the 2009 Metrobank Art and Design Excellence (MADE) semi-finalists in the painting and sculpture competitions, as w...

Metrobank Foundation, Inc., in partnership with the Metrobank Card Corporation, United Architects of the Philippines, Philippine Institute of Interior Designers, Federal Land and BluPrint, is inviting all painters and sculptors, 18 to 35 years old, and all registered architects, 25 to 45 years old, to jo...

February 2009--Graffiti is from the Italian word graffiato which means scratched. It has a long history that goes back to the figure drawings found in the walls of ancient ruins in  Rome and monuments in Egypt. Since then, the art, style and usage of graffiti has evolved as a means to communicate social and...

February 2009 - Two months short of its fourth anniversary, Artesdelasfilipinas.com is proud to launch its new layout. The site has been reogranized for better article categorization. The new site aims to offer new features in the coming weeks such as a search engine and options to print, email or bookmark an article. Artes de las Filipinas renews it...

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 of whose content seems to be an exploration of her personal history, proves that command in technique is nev...

December 2008 - - Costantino Zicarelli belongs to the new generation of artists whose paintings are difficult to like but harder to ignore. His art differs from the standards as he chooses to paint the deviant and morose. With his art, Costantino Zicarelli hopes to change how viewers look with disfavor and a...

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 University of the Philippines College of Fine Arts. He re-introduced the idea of photo-paintings as well...

AN OVERVIEW OF THE NOVELTY SONGS IN THE PHILIPPINESby: Marianne Aubrey de la Cruz Novelty means innovation, originality, newness, freshness, uniqueness or even a product of creativity.  Novelty songs are popular songs due to its novelty or uniqueness. These sound different from everything else being...