DUE to the pandemic, “Art in the Park,” the popular art fair held annually in the Jaime Velasquez Park in Salcedo Village, Makati, will be held online for the second time. The fair, known for having excellent artworks with a P50,000 price ceiling, celebrates its 15th anniversary in this virtual setting. The fair will be held via www.artinthepark.ph starting 10 a.m. on Feb. 21. New pieces will be uploaded on the site daily until Feb. 28.

NATIONAL Arts Month kicked off via Facebook Live last Monday with a glimpse of the glittering lobby of the Metropolitan Theater, newly restored and awaiting its reopening in April. The program announced dances and films, theater programs, lectures, talks, and more that will be held throughout the rest of February and March, mostly online because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic.

MANY people are not lucky enough to be with their loved ones this Valentine’s Day. If that is the case, or if you simply want suitable words to mark the day, then there are plenty of long-distance love poems that you can reach for, to share or to read for comfort.

GATEWAY Gallery starts this year’s KulturaSerye with the webinar “ARTHENTICITY: Copyright and Responsible Art-Making,” with attorney Exequiel Valerio of the Intellectual Property Office of the Philippines.

LOCAL entertainment agency Viva has launched its newest boy group, ALAMAT, which is aimed to merge “modern pop music and Pinoy cultural heritage,” according to a press release.

AS a true-crime documentary, Crime Scene: The Vanishing at the Cecil Hotel, makes most of both the legend and infamy of the Cecil Hotel in downtown Los Angeles and the social media furor that erupted after the death of 21-year-old Elisa Lam surfaced. But if one is holding out for a grand revelation about the eight-year-old mystery of the death of Ms. Lam, there’s none here — instead, it gives one a view of how her death cemented the “evil” inside the Cecil Hotel.

WE’RE ALL still reeling a bit from 2020 (there is still a pandemic, after all), so it’s best to know what’s in store for all of us for 2021.

INTERNATIONAL rock duo Air Supply, composed of Graham Russell and Russell Hitchcock, hailed Iñigo Pascual and Moophs’ remake of their classic hit “All Out Of Love” for its “great production and sound.”

WHAT better way to celebrate the month of love and arts than the screenings of films and documentaries from the archives of Cinemalaya and Gawad Alternatibo, as well as some well-loved Philippine cinema classics?

IT’S HARD to think about luxury during these times — a point with which a purveyor of luxury jewelry surprisingly agrees. Asked what she has learned about luxury during lockdown, Coralie Charriol, said, “Nothing,” a point she found funny, based on her laughter. “Everybody can live without luxury.”

IT’S ALL about lightness for Uniqlo’s Spring/Summer 2021 collection.

NEW YORK — Fashionistas will be turning to their screens to see the latest designer trends this fashion week as the traditional autumn/winter catwalk calendar kicks off virtually in New York on Sunday.