An Exhibition of Dance Images
59 photos, 1 installationRequirements: 44 running meters For Martha Graham, grande dame of American modern dance, dance can only be collected in other media. Alongside film and video, dance photography is the most important means of recording it. Its images are frozen movement, sculptures of human posture and light. Like theatre photography, it uses stage […]
The Best of Philippine Textiles in Likhang Habi: Market Encounter 2
Museum Foundation of the Philippines, Yuchengco Museum, and Lopez Memorial Museum host local indigenous textiles bazaar on October 23 to 24 The best of homegrown textiles are up for grabs in Likhang Habi: Market Encounter 2. The two-day event is hosted by Yuchengco Museum on October 23 and 24 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. […]
Basic Collections Management Seminar
Learn the art and science of collections management. Private art collectors and professionals who manage collections for museums, galleries, art collectors, and corporations can explore the world of artifacts and mementos through the Collections Management Seminar Series of the Yuchengco and the Lopez Memorial museums. Both institutions will hold a Collections Management seminar series beginning […]
Portraits de chaussures–Histoires de pieds
(Portraits of shoes–Stories of feet) Alliance Française de Manille, Yuchengco Museum and the French Embassy in the Philippines with the support of Cultures France, Air France-KLM, Essilor and Sofitel Philippine Plaza recently inaugurated at the Yuchengco Museum “Portraits de chaussures – Histoires de pieds”, an exceptional and remarkable exhibit curated by Yves Sabourin (the same […]
Stepping in Pinoy Style
The Philippine exhibit collaboration with the French travelling exhibit Portraits of Shoes, Stories of Feet (Portraits de Chaussures, Histoires de Pieds) Ongoing at the Yuchengco Museum is the international traveling exhibit Portraits of Shoes, Stories of Feet (Portraits de Chaussures, Histoires de Pieds), which was brought in from Paris by Alliance Française de Manille. As part […]
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 […]
Lectures on culture and power of Sulu on Sept. 20
The islands of the Sulu seas boast a history of power and a colorful traditional culture. It is the home of the Sulu Sultanate, a kingdom that wielded great power in centuries past. It was one of the strongest states in Southeast Asia, enjoying prosperous trade with China and Europe. The Sultanate waged the longest […]
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 […]
