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Pauline Suaco-Juan joins CITEM and Manila FAME with her storyteller’s hat on

The veteran journalist-turned-executive director underscores the importance of going digital and broadening mindsets if the country is to reach out to more international buyers and compete with the best in the world. By Alex Y. Vergara As usual, all eyes are again focused on tomorrow’s Manila FAME (Oct. 19 to…

First-ever Nam June Paik exhibit opens in Makati on October 22

By Bryle B. Suralta To fellow artists, art critics and collectors, Nam June Paik is known as “the father of video art,” but to his nephew, Ken Hakuta, who now represents the Nam June Paik estate, he was the “crazy uncle.” “One day, when he came from Germany to our…

Family could bring out the best and the worst in you

You get to choose your friends, but you don’t get to choose your family. How often have we heard this universal truism before? For better or for worse, you have to take everything that comes with this random set of people you are born into. Then again, this mindset has…

PSID graduating students revive remnants of old Manila through adaptive reuse

By Bryle B. Suralta Celebrating its 51st year, the Philippine School of Interior Design (PSID) introduces "JUXTAPOSE: Espasyo at Panahon," an "inventive" graduation exhibit that focuses on reviving historic structures with modernized design elements. The exhibit, which was created by the graduating batch of 2018, explores adaptive reuse of old…

Review: Falling in love with Asia’s crazy One Percent

As Princess Intan, the Philippines’ “most famous woman,” in writer Kevin Kwan’s words, more than acquits herself. For sure, there wasn’t much the yellow-, Michael Cinco-clad Kris Aquino could chew on, given that it was a cameo role. But you could see director Jon M. Chu’s camera lingering on Kris…

Eto Na! Musikal nAPO!: the more things change, the more they stay the same

The trio featuring Danny Javier, Jim Paredes and Boboy Garrovillo have been asked by various groups over the years to have their songs featured in a musical, but it was only until 9Works made an offer earlier this year that the three members of the APO Hiking Society finally said…

Ang “Huling El Bimbo” is a traitor worth knowing

By JOSE PAOLO S. DELA CRUZ In recent years, the local theater scene seems to have found its voice in contemporary music, what with the prevalence of jukebox musicals such as Sa Wakas (which featured the songs of Sugarfree) and Rak of Aegis. Naturally, it was only a matter…

Brilliant finds at the upcoming León Exchange online auction, July 27 and 28

Lalique crystal, Hermés ashtrays, Tiffany chargers as well as Botong Francisco drawings and Fernando Zobel watercolors are just some of the brilliant finds at León Exchange's upcoming two-day online auction on July 27 and 28, to be held on the auction house and gallery's website. The first day of the…

An Amorsolo in your home

In the Philippine art scene, very few pieces are as expensive, sought after and prized as the classics of Fernando Amorsolo — the Philippines’ first National Artist, the “Grand Old Man of Philippine Art.” While paintings of this Renaissance man are few and far in between, their beauty can now…

How designer Patty Ang’s optimism and can-do spirit have taken her far

By Aubreylaine M. Salazar Photos by Dix Perez Patty Ang has seen her life take the sharpest of twists and turns, yet the soon-to-wed fashion designer took on life’s greatest challenges with finesse and exemplary resilience. Her family life and business ventures hit a lot of bumps along the way,…