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When a museum announced that world-renowned artist Banksy would have a show in the Philippines, people reacted with mixed emotions, both online and offline.  Tarantadong Kalbo, a famed social media activist and artist, released a work condemning the supposed exhibition. But why are...

Life imitated art in Makati City on Saturday night when hundreds of thousands of people enacted Tarantadong Kalbo's famous "Tumindig" art during what looked like a peaceful revolution but was actually presidential aspirant Vice President Leni Robredo's miting de avance. Everybody in the humongous...

The “Tumindig” artwork of Filipino artist Tarantadong Kalbo, or Kevin Eric Raymundo in real life, meant to encourage people to register to vote, criticize the government’s failed pandemic response, and air his frustrations. Instead, it snowballed into a resistance fueled by artists, writers,...

‘ Artista ng bayan, ngayon ay lumalaban! ’ Resistance and protest can be done in many ways, but often the best and most effective medium is art. Paintings, songs, literature, and other forms of art have the ability to move people to stand up in solidarity in such a creative way that the...