Zeitgeist Becomes Form: German Fashion Photography 1945 – 1995
Berlin en vogue was the title of the catalogue and exhibition that grew out of a research at the Hochschule der Künste in Berlin about three years ago. It was the first project of its kind to explore fashion photography in Germany. Although many histories of fashion photography have been published in other countries, such […]
Mukhang Tsinoy: Portraits by Fernando Amorsolo
Inspired by portraits of Enrique and Maria Yuchengco in the museum collection, and aligning with the fundamental thematic thrust of the museum to highlight the culture, stories, and expressions of the Filipino-Chinese, known as Tsinoys (people of Chinese ancestry, but raised in the Philippines), the Yuchengo Museum joins the Amorsolo Retrospective with an exhibit entitled […]
Mukhang Tsinoy, Artistang Pinoy
In line with the exhibit Mukhang Tsinoy: Portraits by Fernando Amorsolo, the Yuchengco Museum presents Mukhang Tsinoy, Artistang Pinoy, a showcase of portraits of Filipino-Chinese personalities by acclaimed Filipino artists. Among the artists featured in the exhibit are Federico Aguilar Alcuaz, Ang Kiukok, Bencab, Romulo Galicano, Anita Magsaysay-Ho, Vicente Manansala, and Ting Ping Lay.
Brook Andrew: Eye to Eye
Brook Andrew is an Australian artist whose work encompasses photography and installation, as well as interventions in the realms of architecture, the museum, public art, and landscape design. Deftly connecting aesthetics and polemics, Andrew creates striking and insightful works that neatly, beautifully, encapsulate complex conceptual and theoretical questions, which emerge from a lived experience. Reflecting […]
Beyond the Currents: The Culture and Power of Sulu
The exhibition Beyond the Currents: The Culture and Power of Sulu is presented as a general survey and study of the culture of the Sulu archipelago. The objective is to give in a nutshell or in one short visit a ready understanding of the power and strength that the Sulu archipelago and the sultanate had […]
Joie de Vie
Joie de Vie showcases the 10 finalists of the Guild of Philippine Jewellers’ annual jewelry design competition. With this year’s theme “joy of life,” the jewelry pieces evoke the pleasures of beauty, the spirit of goodness, and the lyrical sound of music. The over-all winner in the open judging category and, at the same time, […]
Flow of the Gentle Ink: Storytelling in Calligraphy by Ong BunHan
Ong Bun Han, 81 years old, was born to a poor family in Zhejiang, a coastal province of China. When his parents died when he was five years old, he was brought to Fujian province to live with another family. In the early 1930s, he migrated to the Philippines and worked in his uncle’s grocery […]
Binondo: Pride of Place
The peoples of China and the Philippines are not recent acquaintances. During 960 – 1127 AD, Arab merchants transported Philippine goods to southwestern China through the port of Canton. With the coming of the Spaniards late in the 16th century, Chinese trade with the islands started to increase gradually, not only in the City of […]
AnnTiu.Alchemy
AnnTiu.Alchemy marks the formal launch of designer Ann Tiukinhoy Pamintuan’s jewelry line. In the hands of the artist, base botanical matter—roots, leaves, flowers, and other small objects of nature—transforms into exquisite, one-of-a-kind jewelry. Pamintuan creates such expression that bridges the understanding of art as design, design as art. She keeps the integrity of the piece […]
The World in Painting
Despite regular forecasts of its demise, painting has remained strongly relevant to most cultures for tens of thousands of years. Figurative and abstract, expressive or conceptual, domestic and institutional in character—painting is everywhere. Contemporary artists are well aware of the medium’s history; adopting established conventions as parameters within their practice or, alternatively, challenging the paradigms […]
