The Philippines Today, Yesterday, and Tomorrow
Lucio San Pedro (February 11, 1913) Today, February 11, 2023, is the 110th birth anniversary of National Artist for Music Lucio San Pedro. Lucio San Pedro was a master composer, conductor, and teacher whose music evokes the folk elements of Filipino heritage. Cousin to “Botong” Francisco, San Pedro produced a wide-ranging body of works that … Read more
Richard Buxani hems intergenerational narratives in the exhibition “MAK-INA,” centering on the sewing machine as an object located within nodes of signifiers. We recall grandmothers and mothers sewing for their children. They sustain the family or sew at leisure as a gesture of care. The thought overlaps with the image of women in homes, side-street … Read more
Remembering the life and works of National Artist for Literature Jose Garcia Villa on his 26th death anniversary (February 7, 1997). Jose Garcia Villa is considered one of the finest contemporary poets regardless of race or language. Villa, who lived in Singalong, Manila, introduced the reversed consonance rhyme scheme, including the comma poems that made … Read more
Lucell Larawan: Transforming Painting into Stringed Metaphors In celebration of National Arts Month, Boholano artist Lucell Larawan will be holding his sixth solo exhibition featuring his acrylic mixed-media paintings. In the same vein that his works act as markers along his artistic unfolding, they likewise play as metaphors that dwell on his aspiration and desire … Read more
Oil on Canvas, 1958. The Burning of the Idols by Fernando Amorsolo is on exhibit at the Ayala Museum, Makati City. There are also several of his other paintings from different time periods in the Amorsolo display areas. The scene in this painting is assumed to represent a time soon after the Spanish had arrived … Read more