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Hidden Juan Luna masterpiece on first exhibit in Singapore
Juan Luna's restored "La Muerte de Cleopatra" (The Death of Cleopatra, 1881), a 250 cm x 350 cm oil mural depicting the death of the Queen of the Kingdom of Egypt, is on view at the National Gallery of...
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When I’m 64
When I was 14, heartily singing along to “When I’m Sixty-four” with the Beatles as if there was no tomorrow, I never pondered if I’d reach the same ripe old age and share the elderly sentiments it...
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IC Mendoza and mom Dolly go on a wellness date
LEAD-INS! Cited by this column for her 2017 lead as Best New Actress in New Generation Hero, Joyce Penas Pilarsky was nominated by the Philippine Movie Press Club in the same category for the 2018 Star...
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SAM PENASO: Stripewalker under the sea
As a fisherman in his hometown in Sawang, Guindulman, Bohol, multi-media artist Sam Penaso knows the formations and enclosures of waterscapes, the shapes of coral reefs and the shades of daybright...
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Music for millennials and perennials
SYNCHRONICITY TAKES YASMIEN KURDI. How do you go on a Valentine’s date when you are the the lead actress of a drama series set to pilot during Love Month?In the case of Yasmien Kurdi, lead actor of GMA...
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Pushing truths about HIV
"Abstinence. Use protection. Be God-centered," lead actor Mike Tan authoritatively shares in a mild voice in the role of Marco Angeles. The character talks about how to avoid the dreaded social disease...
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SHERWIN PAUL GONZALES: Tears from the heavens
Gonzales, 45, who signs as “Paul Gonzales,” had to go through erasing his 8-by-15-foot mural entitled Eternal Love with only the face of Jesus Christ, his nailed palms spread, one bloodied, across the...
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To God be the Glory
Nominated for Best New Actress of the Year at the 2018 Star Awards for Movies held recently at the Newport Performing Arts Theater in Resorts World Manila, Joyce Penas-Pilarsky felt sad for herself...
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When talkative means TalkActive
“When we first met,” speech-language therapist Rosanna Henares Angeles recalls, “I could sense David [not his real name] wanted to say so much, but all he could produce was ‘dadada.’” Rosanna left her...
View ArticleJoya makes history for Philippine modern art!
BREAKING NEWS! Jose Joya's Space Transfiguration (1959) was sold for an eye-popping buyer's premium of P112.28 million in a 20-minute bidding contest at Leon Gallery's The Asian Cultural Council...
View ArticleBotong’s History of Manila mural now on display at the National Museum
Taking largely from Paul Gauguin for his lively use of color, Diego de Rivera for perspective, and Juan “Tandang Juancho” Senson, Angono’s painter of religious icon in the 19th century, for...
View ArticleWhy Baron is a recidivist
Persons afflicted with bipolar disorder usually try to balance themselves with alcohol and marijuana to prevent shifting to a depressive mood. Although incurable, it is manageable, according to a...
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Juan Luna takes liberties with Spoliarium
So it was impossible for a wife or a father to be at the imagined spoliarium. Spanish colonizers called Filipinos indios, a derogatory term that painted them as "indolent savages" who had to be tamed...
View ArticleVeronica’s pop doppelganger
When there are many windows of reality and surreality, how are National Artists created now that the new picks are up for proclamation assuming there's no scam?The artist previously known as Jerry...
View Article‘Grander!’
This is what Kapuso creative genius Michael V. answered when asked at the media launch what the audiovisual fest Lip Sync Battle Philippine Season 3 will bring to national entertainment. The series...
View ArticleCineMarya subsidizes short films on women issues
ELMER DUMLAO’S WORK NOW MOUNTED AT SM ART CENTER. Graced by the best visual artists from the University of Sto. Tomas, returning graduate Elmer Dumlao mounts a retrospective at the SM Art Center from...
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Daydreams with Elmer Dumlao
Dreamscaping a seminal life of textures, colors, memories and reveries by taking us to realms amd domains never imagined or bothered, the Filipino University of Santo Tomas-trained visual artist...
View ArticleUST Fine Arts alumni reunite this Saturday
The Fine Arts graduates of the University of Sto. Tomas, Asia’s oldest existing university with a European-style higher education institution that enjoyed all the rights and privileges of similar...
View ArticleLike carinderia, simple is smashing
Tourism Secretary Wanda Tulfo Teo smashed in a simple baby pink dress when she graced the grand media launch of “Buhay Carinderia... Redefined” at the grand ballroom of the Rizal Park Hotel on...
View ArticleNatural medicine advocate falls in love with Oak Tree
It was right on egress when TV5’s natural medicine advocate Edinell Calvario fell in love with the stunning Oak Tree (2013) and purchased it outright from the artist, Elmer Dumlao. The work was part of...
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