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Reading Gale Encarnacion’s Pushkin Roberts Anthology
By Mara Fabella
"I found myself looking at each work in its entirety before checking their…

Molding, meaning, making: How Tahanan Pottery is building a communal home for contemporary ceramic pottery
By Nikki Ignacio
“Clay is the only material that replies to your touch. When you poke…

Kanpeki: The Voice of Independent Philippine Artists Heard in Kyoto
By Koki Lxx
Koki Lxx visits Kyoto’s Voice Gallery, where curator Matsuo Megumi has teamed up with Nano to survey…

Framing Windows to an Archive in three facets (After a text by Randall C. Jimerson)
By Lk Rigor
At ALiWW, Imelda Cajipe Endaya's archival exhibit presents a repository "open,…

An art of memory in crisis
By Sean Carballo
"In these works, looking is no ambiguous act. To look — clearly and intentionally…

Jana Benitez answers and shares the call of the wild
By Pao Vergara
With a wide range of styles following her childhood entry into the art world,…

Being Kids For Kids: Culture-conscious action toward empowered futures
By The Cartellino Team
"We’re trying to create a world where no matter how different your passions are, everyone should be able…

Further Conversation with Material: Curator’s Talk with Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera 
By Lk Rigor
Speaking with Lk Rigor, curators Lara Acuin and Con Cabrera go into the intricacies of curating, artmaking,…

A Conversation: Brushing histories, carving space
By Lyra Garcellano and Lec Cruz
In reflections on their personal artistic process, the artists invite readers and viewers of art to engage…

of forgetting, of remembering
By James Luigi Tana
"Writing has to side with collective truths and it should compel one to interrogate…

Weaving a Legacy: Of Art, Growth, and Community
By Alyssa Selanova
"Now in its fourth year, Tubô Cebu Art Fair continuously echoes and demonstrates Visayas-Mindanao's growing…

Fotomoto 22 brings us “Home”
By Marz Aglipay
Fotomoto 22 opens up to more photographers for its second edition themed “Home”.

How memory weaves a thread of justice
By Pao Vergara
In its second iteration in the Ateneo Art Gallery, a collaborative exhibit between researchers, autobiographical…

'The absence left the void half full': Works on what we find in nothingness
By Gabrielle Gonzales
Cartellino's first ever physical exhibition, presented at the 2022 Modern and Contemporary Art Festival, features…

Discerning Treasure and Wealth in Jandy Carvajal’s Repoussé Artworks
By Mara Fabella
His third exhibit of repoussé works, Ang Ating Mga Kayamanan Sa Bakuran is Jandy Carvajal's…

To the fires that never go out: An ode to the myth, method, and madness in Iya Regalario’s Tag-Apoy
By Nikki Ignacio
“Fire is life and death, the beginning and end, constantly burning through…

Mass Media and Martial Law in Alfredo Esquillo's Bread and Circuses
By Meg Genuino
As the country prepares for the inauguration of a new president, Esquillo’s works beckon viewers to look…

Pio Abad: Exorcising the Ghosts of the Marcos Regime
By Mara Fabella
After ten years of research into the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Pio Abad's Fear…

Writer and director Alex Westfall critically imagines history through archives and fiction
By Zea Asis
“A lot of my work stems from the existential question 'How did I get here? [...] What would have happened…

Remembering and Retrieving in Ateneo Art Gallery's Ligalig
By Meg Genuino
"...With only less than a month before the registered population is given a chance to choose the nation’s…

The Regions in Focus at the 10th Art Fair Philippines
By Marz Aglipay
With this year’s edition of Art Fair Philippines going hybrid, featured art groups from the country’s…