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When Collecting Is Caring: In Conversation With Dr. Anthony Marc Ancheta
By Madeleine Teh

FCPM: Alee Garibay and that Feeling in Her Art
By Francisco Lee

Everything’s Going to Be Fine: In Conversation with Katrina Stuart Santiago
By Madeleine Teh

Two collectives show how Antipolo’s art traditions continue to define the city as a creative capital
By Pao Vergara
Against a backdrop of museums, workshops, and artist retreats, we spotlight two collectives communicating the city’s…

How Gianne Encarnacion traces the worlds within
By The Cartellino Team
In the past year, the artist and illustrator’s works have come to life as immersive dioramas, joining Cartellino…

The Visceral Mindscapes of Tarzeer Pictures’ Hemispheres
By Sean Carballo
"Throughout the show, a range of elements attempt to provide structure and shelter for the mind. Light crackles and…

Stitching Her Own Image: On Maricar Tolentino’s Sipat
By Zea Asis

Looking back at Angkor Photo Workshops
By Lk Rigor
As deadlines approached for the next Angkor Photo Festival and Workshops, Lk Rigor joins Angkor Photo alumni JL Javier, James Lontoc, Geela Garcia,…

What's in a gesture?
By Sean Carballo
"To gesture, on the one hand, is to signify an artistic mark. But, on the other, it is an intuitive language beyond—or before—language,…

Allan Balisi’s Waiting Games
By Sean Carballo
"[T]here’s a romantic tinge to the practice of waiting, an ache that renders us momentarily porous, submersible."

The tenor of sound practice in Manila
By Chesca Santiago
A conversation with Dayang Yraola on the labels, ecologies, and shifts of sound.

The non-brutal submissions in Archie Geotina’s Tropikal Brutalism
By Lk Rigor

Data Dump: AI and Abstraction in Wataru Sakuma’s Hypercomplex
By Sean Carballo
Across Sakuma’s paper works in Hypercomplex

Natures of Curation: A Conversation with Gian Carlo Delgado
By Sean Carballo
In the Realm of Nature grappled with our ideas about nature, inviting…

Dreaming and Beyond: Jun Impas’ Pangandoy
By Gwen Bautista
“From festivals to the stillness of a normal weekday, his paintings orient us to see the peripheries.” 

Tracing the Ant: Curator’s Talk with Mayumi Hirano
By Lk Rigor
In her second Curator's Talk, writer Lk Rigor speaks with Mayumi Hirano about the challenges and charms of curating—tracing the ant, so to speak,…

Upon A Bed of Gravel: A Journey Through Nona Garcia’s Overland
By Mara Fabella
What does it mean to actually “be” in a place—to be present in all its qualities, in what makes it unique? Reviewing Nona Garcia’s…

Two shows bask in clay’s quiet conundrums
By Sean Carballo
Pablo Capati III, Marco Rosario, and Jezzel Wee’s ‘These common, intimate things’, and Jon Pettyjohn’s ‘Steps’,…

The Black Dog Rises: Javy Villacin’s Itum na Ido at Qube Gallery
By Alyssa Selanova
In his ‘Itum na Ido’, Javy Villacin combines past and future to chart the evolution of power.  

First impressions: Inside the OVERINKED Studio
By The Cartellino Team
As part of Prints Made in May 2023, Cartellino met with the members of up-and-coming Quezon City printmaking studio,…

A Break-Up as Queer Form in Jao San Pedro’s Willing the Sun to Rise Twice
By Sean Carballo