By CID REYES What hath this damn pandemic wrought? Whereto, mankind? On the second year of the quarantine and lockdown isolation, when we are wailing in despair and desolation, hanging on to the last vestige of sanity, Mother Nature deliberately gets herself into the act, deranging a volcano and...
EDITORS DESK In 2020, Â a massive phishing campaign on Facebook successfully stole more than 15,000 accounts based in the Philippines. Using FB targeting technology, the scammers were able to identify users who are more likely to engage with their posts. By paying Facebook via sponsored posts,...
The third installment of Mindanao Art Fair will happen this coming October Mindanawon art and culture is alive and thriving even during this pandemic time. A testament to that is the upcoming Mindanao Art Fair 2021, which is now on its third year. This time around, the fair will revolve around the...
A response to Monet, Kahlo, and other passionate artists—and gardeners, too ‘Gertrude Jekyll (The Earth was Her Canvas I)’ by Geraldine Javier On exhibit until Aug. 30, 2021 at Artinformal Makati, is artist Geraldine Javier’s response to a question she has been mulling over for quite a...
NIGHT OWL Anna Mae Lamentillo One of my earliest recollections of Department of Transportation Secretary Art Tugade was during the inspection of the LRT-2 East Extension Project – a railway project which would add four kilometers to the existing 13.8-kilometer LRT-2 train line, connecting Recto...
GNCH’s fair has come to town HEAD EIGHT , graphite on paper, 2021 Gen Lazaro or GNCH has always been fascinated by the carnival. These joys felt at the fair across all nations by all ages and all walks of life is the centerpiece of his latest and first solo exhibit “A Fair of Fragile Limbs”...
More and more people are now coming out to defend Arjo Atayde's actions in Baguio. After girlfriend Maine Mendoza, co-actor Nikko Natividad and mom, Sylvia Sanchez, now, it's his father, Art Atayde's turn. In a recent vlog, comedian Ogie Diaz shared details of his recent conversation with the...
Turning public art into technology-infused SM-art The great idea behind public art is that it’s accessible, easily viewed by people from all walks of life as it blends into the urban landscape. It runs counter to the notion of art being elitist, reserved for the few, or even accessible only by...
Kim’s art is talking back CONCRETE BED, Cement, wooden mannequin, wood shaving, wooden box frame, 2921 Everything has a beginning. Every beginning has an ending. And after every ending is another beginning. Kim Hamilton Sulit’s pieces, which were included in the group exhibition entitled...
Meisner Institute graduate Angeli Bayani (top first row, second from right) held a talk with actors and directors Last Aug. 3, actress Angeli Bayani, a recent graduate of Meisner Institute, an acting school founded by Sanford Meisner shared her learnings on how to be a “feather in the...
VIEWS FROM THE RIDGE JUSTICE APOLINARIO D. BRUSELAS Chairman,6th Division, Court of Appeals Department Head, PhilJA Ethics Department In no other profession or calling is there a greater expectation of high ethical standards and values than in the position of a judge or justice in the judiciary....
At home in Manila with Germany’s Ambassador Anke Reiffenstuel NATURE’S CONVERGENCE A Buddy Bear, one of Berlin s most memorable symbols with a whaleshark painted on its stomach, welcomes people into the German ambassador's home in Manila Germany’s Ambassador Anke Reiffenstuel arrived in...