A bright idea for what you can do with your parents’ or grandparents’ yearbook Upcycled collage art uses what many would call “waste” as the main materials to create visually compelling or appealing art. Instead of ending up in the garbage can and eventually, the landfill, a...
The artist shares her perspective ArtSpeak Ramon E.S. Lerma Art and design are close cousins in the creative world, and it is always exciting to bring the design perspective when it comes to choosing and hanging art in your personal space. I am currently working with curator and artist Stephanie...
DRIVING THOUGHTS Pinky Concha Colmenares Is this the way media events have become? Clusters of people, their heads bowed to their gadgets, are somewhere else but not at the site. That’s the scene that I walked into when I finally went out of my “safe zone” and ventured into attending a media...
Sampayan Art #8 at Pintô Art Museum is looking for art buyers who will choose not on the basis of who made them, but on their personal emotional and aesthetic response to the work By Dr. Joven Cuanang Over 30 years ago, a group of artists known as Salingpusa launched their careers with a series of...
EDITORS DESK Art Samaniego While Facebook deleted pages that violated its community standards, the social media giant at the same time has allowed ads that lure people into giving their login credentials. Facebook recently deactivated hundreds of pages in the Philippines to weed out the so-called...
What’s new and upcoming at Art Lounge Manila, Eskinita Art Gallery, and Ayala Museum View this post on Instagram A post shared by Art Lounge Manila (@artloungemanila) ONGOING: ‘Life’ VENUE: Art Lounge Manila, The Podium in Mandaluyong City Life flows from the fount that comes directly from...
From the park and into the metaverse Over 61 galleries, art schools, independent art spaces, art collectives, and, for the first time, an NFT marketplace, are slated to showcase their exhibits online from April 24 to May 1 at www.artinthepark.ph . As the world opens up to more face-to-face...
Art Lounge Manila’s newest exhibits feature the larger-than-life works of Anna de Leon, Francis Nacion Jr., Louie Ignacio, Jonathan Dangue, Ricky Francisco, Melissa Yeung Yap, and 0270501 A painted canvas is like a window to a new world created out of an artist’s imagination. But seeing a...
Pilipinas Shell’s 54th National Student Art Competition (NSAC) Virtual Gallery is now available for viewing the top 40 artworks from 4 categories: Digital Fine Arts, Oil-Acrylic, Sculpture, and Watercolor. All the proceeds from the sale go to these young student artists whose pieces shone in the...
The stage is set. BURNING MAN Guirhem Usog Sa Kalayo Multi-awarded artist Melvin Guirhem of Iloilo would stitch together his personal experiences on canvases, but for Art Fair Philippines 2022 his works went beyond the familiarities of his personal life and evolved into a collective study of the...
‘Significat’ by Jo Balbarona on view at Galerie Joaquin BGC HIGH ABOVE, acrylic and goldleaf on canvas, 12 x 12 Cranes, or herons as they are also referred to, play an important role in eastern mythology. In some cultures, the crane has a legendary status, venerated as the prince of all...
NFT Art Union Bank of the Philippines (UnionBank), together with the non-profit Center for Art, New Ventures and Sustainable Development (CANVAS.PH), recently held a two-part webinar series centered around digital art in the age of non-fungible tokens (NFTs), to help artists, buyers, and collectors...
