For 25 years, the Asian Cultural Council (ACC) Philippines has been more than a patron of the arts—it has been a bridge, a catalyst, and a champion of cultural exchange. Through its fellowships, ACC has empowered nearly 300 Filipino artists, scholars, and cultural workers, many of whom have gone...
The Ayala Museum will open its doors for free on March 24, 2024, the final day of the "Splendor: Juan Luna, Painter as Hero" exhibition, featuring his long-lost artwork, "Hymen, oh Hyménée!" If you haven't seen it yet, take the opportunity to visit the museum before it closes. Before being...
From friendship made, in friendship confirmed. This sums up the extraordinary journey of a piece of art that had found its way inadvertently into history, with its own story as equally captivating as that of the one it was modeled—or, perhaps, molded?—after. Made of bronze, the ‘Bust of...
“Hymen, oh Hyménée!” by Juan Luna The Ayala Museum recently unveiled a long-lost national treasure. “Hymen, oh Hyménée!,” by Juan Luna was revealed to select guests at the Ayala Museum on Friday, June 9. The painting, which was last seen in public in Paris 132 years ago, is considered...
And how one of the Seven Wise Men behind the 1935 Constitution tried—and failed—to bring it back home A MAGNIFICENT SIGHT A museum volunteer shows visitors Juan Luna's Spoliarium at the National Museum of Fine Arts In the Philippines, Filipino creativity is celebrated during the entire month of...
WALA LANG Now at Madrid’s Museo del Prado until March is an exhibit on the art of Fernando Zobel, the Filipino-Spanish artist, who pioneered in the study of Philippine religious imagery, founded the Ateneo Art Gallery and the Museum of Abstract Art in Cuenca, Spain, and masterpieces that the...
Mark Cañega animates another Filipino masterpiece Among the many Filipino masterpieces, National Artist Juan Luna’s “Spoliarium” is one of the most iconic. It has been immortalized by The Eraserheads with their song of the same title, it’s in the hit the rom-com scene in the...
LANDSCAPE Gemma Cruz Araneta Luna, Arquitecto is not exactly an art book, it is more of a secular decretum that distills social history; it is also a tender and inquisitive life story of a tortured soul whose creativity and technical virtuosity raised the bar of Philippine architecture. The...
Let the Spoliarium , in its 160 x 280-inch frame of oil-on-poplar, take you back to that time of struggle in which a concentration of our greatest Filipinos pursued passions far beyond the quest for self-fulfillment HUMANITY IN SEVERE ORDEAL Juan Luna's Spolarium displayed inside the National...
A true league of legends Online games have been a part of everyday life for many Filipinos even before the pandemic. But during the community quarantines, online platforms, such as various forms of digital entertainment, have redefined what it means to be connected. Apart from the bonds made, these...
