Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945-1995

The Goethe-Institut, Rogue Magazine and the Yuchengco Museum proudly present “Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945-1955”, an exhibit featuring iconic images by some of Germany’s most renowned photographers. The 188 images of the exhibit include works by Helmut Newton, Wolfgang Tillmans, Olaf Martens, Jürgen Teller and 35 other photographers selected by curator FC Gundlach. The exhibit is more than just a […]

Mukhang Tsinoy: Portraits by Fernando Amorsolo at Yuchengco Museum

The Yuchengco Museum joins His Art, Our Heart, the Amorsolo Retrospective, with an exhibit of Filipino-Chinese portraits by the country’s first National Artist. Entitled Mukhang Tsinoy: Portraits by Fernando Amorsolo, the exhibit is on view until January 17, 2009. Fernando Amorsolo emerged as the master painter during the Commonwealth period in the 1930s. Besides painting […]

Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye

The first major survey of the artist’s work, Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye interrogates the politics of difference and, closely entwined, the implications of ‘the gaze’. Eye to eye, across land and cultures, Andrew explores the promising and yet fractured grounds of our contemporary intercultural engagement. Reflecting equally on global mass media and traditional grassroots […]

Sulu’s Power and Culture at Yuchengco Museum

Power is the central message of the exhibit Beyond the Currents: The Culture and Power of Sulu ongoing at the Yuchengco Museum in RCBC Plaza, Makati City. Rare Tausug suits of body armor and weapons of power and defense highlight the strength and might of the Sulu Sultanate during the 18th and 19th centuries. This […]

Winning Jewelry Design Pieces Now Honored with a Museum Exhibit

Out of 306 entries to the annual jewelry design competition mounted by the Guild of Philippine Jewellers, Inc., 10 finalists were selected by this year’s panel of judges, from which a winner in the traditional as well as the non-traditional component categories are now on exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum until June 17. With this […]

Yuchengco Museum Presents Jewelry and Furniture by Ann Pamintuan

The award-winning jewelry, furniture, and sculptures of Ann Tiukinhoy Pamintuan are on view for the first time in Manila at the Yuchengco Museum until May 10. In an exhibit titled AnnTiu.Alchemy, Pamintuan’s works chronicle her transformative journey as a designer from gilding twigs and leaves into jewelry to fashioning cast metal furniture from roots—and back. […]

Young Curators at Yuchengco Museum

The Yuchengco Museum is the only museum in the country focused on developing the next generation of young curators. In partnership with the University of the Philippines Manila, a new exhibit focusing on Binondo is presently on exhibit, and is the end product of a special program of the museum. Entitled Binondo: Pride of Place, […]

Flow of the Gentle Ink: Storytelling in Calligraphy by Ong Bun Han

Flow of the Gentle Ink, an exhibit by master calligrapher Ong Bun Han opens at the Yuchengco Museum on March 8, 2008. The exhibit includes brush renditions of Returning Home, a famous poem by pre-Tang dynasty poet Tao Yuan Ming. Born in the coastal province of Zhejiang, China, Ong struggled through childhood. At age five, […]

Zhangzhou Ware exhibit talk and tour at Yuchengco Museum

Renowned Chinese porcelain scholar Rita Ching Tan will present her talk and lead a guided tour of the exhibit Zhangzhou Ware Found in the Philippines: “Swatow” Export Ceramics from Fujian 16th – 17th Century on February 9, Saturday, at 10:30 a.m. at the Yuchengco Museum. Tan will present a fascinating overview of the dramatic times […]

The World in Painting

The Yuchengco Museum and the Australian Embassy Manila present The World in Painting, an international touring exhibit of contemporary Australian art. On view until February 13, the exhibit offers perspective into how Australian artists, from a range of generations and locations, experience and view their worlds. Curated by Zara Stanhope, Senior Curator and Deputy Director […]

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