“Ugnayan,” a Lesson on Collaboration and Exchange

The dominance of Manila as the center of the Philippine art scene has long defined the narrative of success and visibility of Filipino artists. But this centralism might soon be yielding...

Musings on the Dissonance between Artists’ Intent and Critics’ Interpretation

I remember a conversation I had with a fellow artist a long time ago. The artist expressed concern after observing a huge difference between an interpretation of their painting...

Curating the Artists; the Artists Curating

In her essay, "With Practicality Comes a Practice: The Artist as Curator," Sarah Pierce examines the initial instance of artists assuming control over the curation and presentation of their...

Art in the Context of Squares, or, How We Unwittingly Deduce these Squares into a Cerebral Notion of Emptiness

In an artistic occasion where instead of the celebrated figures of humanity and its concomitant attributes (the bursting life, visual colors and stories), the square, or to be precise,...
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