USC Press launches coffee table book “Kamingaw”

02/20/2017

USC Press launched Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana on January 10 at the Cebu Country Club. This is a joint effort that takes pride with the wonders of the local art…

Mr. Mon’s ode to Noy Tinong

Gerard Pareja 12/13/2016

THIS January, the book “Kamingaw: An Impressionist Portrait of the Bisaya Painter Martino A. Abellana” by Raymund Fernandez will be launched. Fernandez, fondly called “Mr. Mons” by his students in the UP Cebu Fine Arts program, will…

Cebuano modernism

03/15/2016

Kinutil Identity is a big issue for local artists. As it should be. In the 1970s, there was the common assertion that Philippine art was derivative and too affected by the West, especially American art. This assertion…

A year to be inspired

Madrileña de la Cerna 01/10/2016

One of the gifts I received last Christmas was a 2016 Calendar Pad given by my next door neighbor who is a medical representative. I was struck by the cover phrase “A Year to be Inspired” with…

A return to light

Raymund Fernandez 07/22/2015

Janine Barrera-Castillo’s “Elemental Light” is ongoing at the Qube Gallery in Crossroads. She invites interested readers to her “artist’s reception” at 6 p.m. this Thursday, 23 July 2015 at the same venue. Janine was one of the…

Cecilia in Cebu

Jaime Picornell 07/11/2015

SO much had happened in the less than two months since early October 1983 when I had arrived in Zaragoza, and when I left towards the end of November. Cecilia came to Madrid to see me off…

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