Architecton
Entitled Architecton, the eponymous exhibit features modern architecture by the Moscow architectural firm. Through photographs, albums, and monographs, the show highlights Architecton’s timeless, glorious, and imaginative design and approach over the past decade. Architecton was founded in Moscow, Russia in 2001 by Alexander Zusik and Ekaterina Seregina. Over the past decade, more than 200 buildings […]
Pen, Paper, and Bookmaking: The Life of Carlos Quirino
Carlos Quirino (1910 – 1999) obtained his journalism degree from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in 1931. The first biography he wrote was on President Manuel Quezon, titled Man of Destiny (1935). He spent some years working as an assistant to his uncle, future Philippine president Elpidio Quirino, who also supported his law studies […]
Remix: Santiago Bose
Remix: Santiago Bose is a postmodern retrospective of the late, internationally acclaimed Baguio visual artist and cultural provocateur Santiago Bose. Visual artist Santiago Bose (1949 – 2002) created many memorable works in mixed media: he was a painter, performance artist, set designer, and installation artist who often used indigenous media in his work. His work […]
Moments Frozen In Time: An Exhibit of Dance Images
The only record of the art of a dancer is in the other arts. Martha Graham Motion and photography are total opposites, not just in art. Motion, the motor of any change, is the embodiment of the living and the present. Its highest aesthetic expression is artistic dance. Dance is motion guided by music, melody, […]
Balgo: Contemporary Art from the Balgo Hills
Balgo. In Australia, it’s a word that conjures color and exuberance. It invokes an art which is both ancient and contemporary; both abstract and yet redolent of landscape; both spiritual and political. When acrylic paintings from Balgo, deep in the Western Desert of central Australia, first appeared in the 1980s, they shook up what the […]
Draped in Silk: The Journey of the Manton de Manila
The Philippine islands, colonized by Spain in the 16th century, was an obligatory port of call for galleons loaded with precious cargoes of Oriental products, which came via Mexico to dock at Seville’s port. Known as the galleon trade, these galleons brought goods from China to Europe through the Philippines. One of these in-demand items […]
First Impressions: Early Views of the Philippines
First Impressions: Early Views of the Philippines shows the work of Spanish and Philippine cartographers who drafted the first known maps of the Philippines from the collections of the members of the Philippine Map Collectors Society (PHIMCOS) and Gallery of Prints. In addition to the rare 16th and 18th century maps on view, also on […]
Stepping in Pinoy Style
In order to reinforce the dialogue of cultures, Filipino artists and designers bring their contribution to the French touring exhibition Portraits of Shoes, Stories of Feet—an exhibit curated by Yuchengco Museum entitled Stepping in Pinoy Style. Like the major exhibition, Stepping in Pinoy Style looks at the range of Filipino footwear through the centuries. One […]
Quo Vadis, Lakaran?
In November 2008, German sculptor Hans Angerer accepted an invitation from Goethe-Institut Manila to an artist-in-residence program on “Artwork with tropical materials.” In Baguio City, Hans collaborated with filmmaker Kidlat Tahimik, whom he had previously met in Bavaria. The objective of commissioning Filipino woodcarvers to produce models of shoes used by the villagers around Baguio […]
Portraits of Shoes, Stories of Feet
Portraits of Shoes, Stories of Feet is an exhibition of 62 pairs of shoes from the 18th to the 21st century from the Romans International Museum Collection and collections of renowned French fashion houses. The exhibit freely recalls the history of shoes from the 17th to the 21st century beginning from its creation to its […]