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Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People

“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It has long been an important part of Philippine…

Mass Media and Martial Law in Alfredo Esquillo's Bread and Circuses

As the country prepares for the inauguration of a new president, Esquillo’s works beckon viewers to look back — as far as the collapse…

Renz Baluyot’s Anthem: A Song for the Adrift

Writer Mara Fabella ruminates on the lengths we go to give form to the ineffable and elusive, and finds grounding in the fictional draperies of Renz…

Synthetic Condition: Relics of the Personal World like Shed Snakeskin

As one's identity, memories, and feelings emerge from the depths of the psyche, they find synthetic expressions, from paintings and collages to a video-game…

The glimmer of woman’s desire in Pam Quinto’s ‘lonely is the room’

"It would seem that I’d been led to trespass at a crime scene. Was it an act of passion that led to its almost…

Odes on a gossamer existence: The works of Hae Ryun, Christian Carillaza and Jem Magbanua

At Galerie Stephanie, a trio of shows offer a contemplative retreat into the sublimity of nature.

Pio Abad: Exorcising the Ghosts of the Marcos Regime

After ten years of research into the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Pio Abad's Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts unearths…

Writer and director Alex Westfall critically imagines history through archives and fiction

“A lot of my work stems from the existential question 'How did I get here? [...] What would have happened had this dictatorship not happened,…

Tracing trajectories in Jonas Eslao’s Blanc Gallery Solo Show

In Jonathan Eslao’s most recent show, scrap fabrics overlap, crack, and crease and clumps of paint collect to narrate past mishaps and outline…

Remembering and Retrieving in Ateneo Art Gallery's Ligalig

"...With only less than a month before the registered population is given a chance to choose the nation’s leaders, Ligalig presents a diversity…

The Regions in Focus at the 10th Art Fair Philippines

With this year’s edition of Art Fair Philippines going hybrid, featured art groups from the country’s three main island clusters discuss…

On Shifting Perceptions: Artist Interview with Lesley-Anne Cao and Pam Quinto

Writer Zea Asis speaks to both Lesley-Anne Cao and Pam Quinto at length about ideating their…

Finding Poetry in Jel Suarez’s arrivals, retrievals

Every element in each assemblage or collage is handpicked…

Ang INK’s 30th Traces Its Role in Children’s Literature

Nina Martinez, the current president of Ang INK, shares the organization’s hopes for…

On the Threads of Space and Time in “Passing”

In her solo show “Passing,” Celine Lee wrestles with the inevitable pull of the unknowable.

Artist Interview: Sam Feleo on Process and Her Next Steps

"In a way, the process became a process of care: about caring, about pruning, about nurturing. The…

Shedding Light: FotomotoPH on Their Inaugural and Connection through Portraiture

“Fotomoto” is a play on the words “photo mo ‘to.” The Cartellino…

Printmaking Illustrations: The self-published books and full-colored prints of Keith Gum

Unlike artists books that are often focused on highlighting works of an artist, Keith’s…

Meet Your Instructor: Steph Alvarez on Her Practice of Art

"With painting still life (in my class), students will learn the basic watercolor painting…

It takes many twos

When it comes to art writing, there's often much to consider; in this estimate, two too many.