Tirada

Radel Paredes 06/02/2018

            In 1935, Manuel Rodriguez, a talented young Cebuano, arrived in Manila full of dreams of being an artist. Although having only few pennies in his pocket, he immediately enrolled in the…

Tirada

Radel Paredes 05/26/2018

One of the oldest forms of art, and ironically now relegated to second class status, is printmaking. For thousands of years, artists have been reproducing images out of molded clay rollers, carved woodblocks, and — more recently…

Feather by feather

Radel Paredes 05/12/2018

In her recent book simply titled “Fascism–A Warning”, former US Secretary of State Madeleine Albright quoted the Italian dictator Benito Mussolini as saying, “If you pluck a chicken one feather at a time, people don’t really notice.”…

Of white sand beaches and e. coli

Radel Paredes 05/05/2018

That footage of a Boracay vendor selling her wares at buy-one-take-10 to a TV reporter haunts us as a nation as we saw how the island, famous for its white sand beaches, was recently closed down for…

Roll in the BRT

Radel Paredes 04/28/2018

It’s summer and going around town is supposed to be a breeze with traffic expected to be lighter. But, as most of us have noticed, it seems there’s no difference at all, summer or no summer. Getting…

Deleting our memory

Radel Paredes 04/21/2018

The recent expose of how Facebook has been sharing (or selling) our private information to interested groups (such as political parties) without our consent shows how it has been playing Big Brother in the social network. But…

Gramsci and the 24-hour library

Radel Paredes 04/14/2018

The announcement not so long ago by Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña to turn the Rizal Memorial Library into a 24-hour library surprised many of us, particularly those who used to frequent this public library housed in…

Christ’s revolution of love

Radel Paredes 03/31/2018

As we celebrate Easter today, we ponder on what the resurrection of Christ really meant for each of us and the whole human civilization. Under the brutal hands of the ancient Romans, Christ went through the worst…

In Se

Radel Paredes 03/24/2018

Closing today is the solo exhibition of my daughter Celina’s “In Se,” a series of still life paintings on big canvas which has been on display since last Saturday in the University of San Carlos Church of…

March of art

Radel Paredes 03/10/2018

After the customary parade of exhibits and festivals held in the Arts Month of February, March continues the momentum with its own flurry of art related events. In Cebu, local artists continue to be very productive exhibiting…

A soulful month

Radel Paredes 03/03/2018

Question: If February is the month of love and art, what goes on for the rest of the year? Answer: Hate and barbarity. This is a joke, of course. But the fact that, in the Philippines, we…

Undoing a revolution

Radel Paredes 02/24/2018

For those who experienced the dark years of Marcos dictatorship and the surge of people’s revolt that culminated in the People Power Revolution in Edsa in 1986, it is disturbing to see how the nation is about…

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