Ed Defensor’s foray into floral subjects was, by his own account, a serendipitous accident. It started when Himbon, an artist...
Essays
The dominance of Manila as the center of the Philippine art scene has long defined the narrative of success and...
The conversation began quite organically, in 2024, with Johanz Mercurio simply showing up at Thrive Art Gallery, talking about this...
By a late invitation, I was able to attend the vernissage of ‘The Patrimony of All’, the exhibit of Lunas,...
Miraculously, he got us tickets. I burst into Palma Hall on the U.P. Diliman campus at exactly 1p.m., just as...
Hardly can the story of the revival of the traditional piña weaving industry in Aklan be discussed without mentioning the life, art, innovations, and advocacy of Anna India Dela Cruz Legaspi.
In the 1970’s, Wilhelmina Cole Holladay, founder of National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington D.C. asked “where...
The past three years were quite an ascent for Melvin Guirhem. He won Grand Prize at the Philippine Art Awards...
Take away the decades, the digital revolutions, and the changing zeitgeists. What does an artist from the 1990s share with...
Jed Vincent Mercurio is an artist from Iloilo City who’s vibrant, animation-inspired style blends perspective-driven compositions with lively, imaginative color...