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 […]
Cordilleran artists pay homage to Bencab
An exhibit tribute to National Artist Benedicto “Bencab” Cabrera at the Yuchengco Museum traces the inspiration he drew from and gave to his adopted art community in the Cordilleras. Entitled Cordillera Suite: Homage to Apo Ben, the exhibit focuses on painters and photographer artists from Bencab’s circle. The exhibit highlights works by six young Cordilleran […]
Contemporary Filipino Pottery at Yuchengco Museum
Contemporary artist-potters in the Philippines have been few but highly versatile in their output. Created for functional use or for expressing artistic sensibility, the works of today’s potters have evolved to sophisticated, elegant pieces that merge aesthetics and practicality. On exhibit at the Yuchengco Museum is Poetry in Function: A Glimpse at Contemporary Filipino Pottery, […]
Yuchengco Museum Presents Zhangzhou Ware Found in the Philippines
The Yuchengco Museum showcases more than a hundred blue-and-white ceramics from 16th to 17th century China in an exhibit entitled Zhangzhou Ware Found in the Philippines: “Swatow” Export Ceramics from Fujian 16th – 17th Century. On view from October 11, 2007 to January 16, 2008, the exhibit displays 125 pieces of ceramics produced by pottery […]
Praise to Nature
Prof Tsai’s Chinese Traditional Calligraphy and Painting Arsenia Lim, also known by her Chinese name Tsai Shiu Yuin, brings her love for calligraphy, landscapes, flowers and birds to be shared with the general public. Her paintings, in the traditional Chinese style are on view at the Yuchengco Museum until October 20, 2007. She combines the […]
