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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…

Collaging Worlds: The Contemporary Spiritual in Jet B. Leyco’s Ispirituwal Transaction
By Pie Tiausas
"With the collapse of the search for an archaic singular truth then comes the…

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…

Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People
By The Cartellino Team
“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It…

Synthetic Condition: Relics of the Personal World like Shed Snakeskin
By Carl Cervantes
As one's identity, memories, and feelings emerge from the depths of the psyche, they find synthetic expressions,…

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…

Ang INK’s 30th Traces Its Role in Children’s Literature
By Wil Guzmanos
Nina Martinez, the current president of Ang INK,…

Shedding Light: FotomotoPH on Their Inaugural and Connection through Portraiture
By The Cartellino Team
“Fotomoto” is a play on the words “photo…

Meet Your Instructor: Steph Alvarez on Her Practice of Art
By The Cartellino Team
"With painting still life (in my class), students…

It takes many twos
By Alain Zedrick Camiling
When it comes to art writing, there's often much to consider; in this estimate, two too many.

Ardent readings
By Carlos Quijon
"Ardent readings lead us to the emergence of something exemplary or to finding felicity in forms or articulations…

Art Writing and ‘Stilled Lives’
By Lyra G
On days we remain trapped, we take notice of what…

Luck at First Strike: Three Winning Filipina Printmakers at International Print Exhibition
By Marz Aglipay
“Striking” is a printmaking term, meaning to lay paper on an inked plate to make a mark. It is…

Constructing Myths through Unconfined Cinema
By Isabel Cabal
Cinema is its own instrument and instrumentalist in storytelling. The three films Erwin Romulo arranged reversed…

Loosen Writing’s Leash
By Pristine de Leon
Kickstarting the series, On Art Writing, Pristine…

A Site of Curiosities: Soft Power Peripherals
By Marz Aglipay
If you’re reading this article from your workstation,…

First Edition Beneficiary Spotlight: Make-A-Wish Philippines
By The Cartellino Team
Through First Edition 2021, Cartellino is a proud wish partner of Make-A-Wish Philippines. A part of all…

Subjugation through Adoration: Bona (1980) Reviewed
By Raissa Azarcon
Interesting to note, too, is that the film was made and released when the Philippines was embroiled in the…