Ballet Philippines turns romantic
BALLET Philippines (BP) is opening its 55th season with one of the oldest surviving romantic ballets in history.
For La Sylphide, the classical and contemporary...
Forms of wonderment
IT IS in the act of exploration that one can discover beauty and magic in the world and put it on canvas. At Art...
Dream of an unfinished but special issue
A WOULD-BE columnist once expressed his hesitation at starting to write regularly for a newspaper or magazine, saying he had a profound fear of the slip of the pen, of being misunderstood due to a misused idiom or phrase, a slipshod consequence of a missing word or misplaced punctuation mark that can make a world of difference from which the writer originally intended.
Ortigas Art Festival celebrates art without borders
THE ORTIGAS Art Festival (OAF) is showcasing more diverse artists from all over the Philippines for its 7th year.
With the theme “Art for All,”...
Arts & Culture (07/24/24)
THE event “Bakit Kay Ganda ng Ating Musika? A Celebration of Original Pilipino Music” will be held on July 25 at 5 p.m. It includes a talk and performance by original Pilipino music (OPM) singer-songwriter Noel Cabangon.
Entertainment News (07/24/24)
A COMPILATION featuring the top 12 songs that made it to the final round of this year’s PhilPop Himig Handog songwriting competition has been released.
Artist swaps British Museum coin with fake
A BRAZILIAN conceptual artist swapped a historic British coin for a fake in the British Museum to highlight the large number of foreign objects...
Looted after a war, priceless antiquities brought back to Cyprus
NICOSIA — Cyprus has taken delivery of priceless antiquities looted after war split the island in 1974, as part of an ongoing effort to...
Nigerian artist aims at world record for largest individual drawing
LAGOS — Nigerian artist Fola David is seeking the Guinness World record for the largest drawing by an individual after spending six days on...
The post-pandemic cosplay boom
IT IS common nowadays to see people wearing costumes of animated characters, superheroes, and video game characters in and around malls and convention centers....
Apple in talks to license more films from Hollywood
APPLE, INC. is having discussions about licensing more films from major Hollywood studios as it looks to bolster its Apple TV+ streaming service, people...
Poet and translator Marne Kilates, 71
MARIANO L. KILATES (known as Marne by his family and friends) passed away at the age of 71 on July 20, announced the largest...