Cebu artists hold exhibit for ailing artist

Intern 07/15/2017

RENOWNED Cebuano artist Mariano Vidal and other local artists are selling 16 of their art pieces at discount prices at an auction exhibit to raise funds for another ailing Cebuano artist. Vidal’s Bahay Kubo, a painting which…

Niegel Delima: Creative Stock

Apple Ta-as 06/24/2017

WHILE looking for good food, you might have met Niegel Paraz Delima through his art. The 23-year-old actually designed the murals of some of your favorite dining spots, restaurants and cafés around the city, starting your mood…

Japanese Artist Paints Cebu in Latest Book on Urban Architecture

Cris Evert Lato-Ruffolo 05/01/2017

JAPANESE watercolor artist Dr. Kiyoko Yamaguchi lived in Cebu for a year to finish her dissertation on the urban architecture in Cebu during the American colonial period. She went around Cebu and then down south to the…

Art Cares

Radel Paredes 03/11/2017

It was in one of those dinner conversations with artist friends Sonia Yrastorza, Jojo Sagayno and two others from the group CAI (Cebu Artists, Incorporated) days after the magnitude 6.7 earthquake devastated my hometown Surigao City, that…

Dagit Arts Fest: a gathering of kindred spirits

03/01/2017

BY Raz Salvarita IMAGINE a circle of creative souls telling stories. And then a curious crowd gathering. Dagit Arts Fest has once again brought together the creative community of visual storytellers, craft makers, musicians and young digital designers…

CHADY PANTALEON: A brush with beauties

Apple Ta-as 02/04/2017

Miss Universe has been chosen and Miss France Iris Mittenaere will go down in history as the third queen (the first one is Spain’s Amparo Muñoz in 1974 then Sushmita Sen of India in 1994, ) crowned in…

Leonardo’s unfinished painting

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 12/31/2016

In March 1481, the Augustinian monks of San Donato a Scopelo in Florence commissioned Leonardo da Vinci, then 29 years old, to make a painting for their altar. Leonardo began working on the Adoration of the Magi,…

The angel before the face of the Messiah

Simeon Dumdum Jr. 12/10/2016

For some reason, the Renaissance painters, Leonardo da Vinci and Caravaggio, portray John the Baptist as an effeminate character. Leonardo’s version, considered as his last painting, depicts John as an androgynous person, a male Mona Lisa with…

Of muses and musings

Apple Ta-as 10/31/2016

AN ARTIST uses his hands and mind to create new things. But, more importantly, Novereich Agustin wants his artworks to speak of his “individuality”—be it through drawing, painting, beadwork, or poetry. Here we begin to appreciate the…

Jacky Chang: Creature of Love

10/23/2016

  WHAT the radio does not reveal to the public is the truth about Jacky Chang’s love story secretly rolled into a record hit. To her, however, once the music is out, it can be owned by…

Collab between gov’t, creative sector needed to uplift arts and culture — expert

Dominic D. Yasay 10/16/2016

THE creative sectors and the government are the very propagators of a community’s arts and culture. As such, both have to maintain a strong collaboration and work together in making arts and culture become an asset that can…

‘Trilogy’: Medium Matters

Gerard Pareja 05/24/2016

DO INTENTIONS matter in art? While most of us frown on propaganda, there have been many masterpieces that started as such. For instance, W.H. Auden, member of the communist party of England, wrote pieces to champion his…

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