Van Gogh painting stolen from Dutch museum during pandemic is recovered
AMSTERDAM — A painting by Vincent Van Gogh that was stolen from a small Dutch museum in 2020 during a COVID-19 lockdown has been...
Objects of antiquity unveiled to the public
An exhibit of a banker’s treasures launches Salcedo Auctions’ series of private art collections
FOR Edwin R. Bautista, the president and chief executive officer of...
Jon Santos and Jenny Jamora restage Bawat Bonggang Bagay
A UBIQUITOUS Filipino dessert, comedian Jon Santos confessed to BusinessWorld, is at the top of his list of brilliant things. But to find out what it is, he is inviting everyone of come and see the restaging of Bawat Bonggang Bagay — the Filipino translation of Duncan Macmillan’s play Every Brilliant Thing.
Switching up orchestral music for Filipino audiences
The PPO’s new musical director will promote local composers
NEARLY a year after conducting a Philippine Philharmonic Orchestra (PPO) concert as part of the orchestra’s...
How video games like Starfield are creating a new generation of classical music fans
By J. Aaron Hardwick
STARFIELD was one of the most anticipated video games in recent history. The game, which was released on Sept. 6, allows players to build...
Arts&Culture (09/13/23)
Music educator Michelle Nikki Junia is CCP president
EARLY childhood educator and performing artist Michelle Nikki Junia was recently elected to be the president ad...
More writers sue OpenAI for copyright infringement over AI training
A GROUP of US authors, including Pulitzer Prize winner Michael Chabon, has sued OpenAI in federal court in San Francisco, accusing the Microsoft-backed program...
Belgium premiers opera casting Cassandra as climate change scientist
BRUSSELS — Belgium’s national opera house has premiered Cassandra, an original score recasting the mythical figure of a doomed prophetess as a climate change...
Roman-era swords, likely Jewish rebel booty, unearthed in Israel
JERUSALEM — Four 1,900-year-old swords, complete with wooden and leather scabbards, have been discovered in a remote cave in an Israeli desert, leading archaeologists...
Archaeologists unearth 1,000-year-old mummy in Peru residential neighborhood
LIMA — Archaeologists in Peru have unearthed a 1,000-year-old mummy in the latest discovery at an archaeological site located in a residential neighborhood of...
Ghibli’s Miyazaki has ideas for next project after The Boy and the Heron
TORONTO — Studio Ghibli’s legendary director, Hayao Miyazaki, 82, still has not put his pencil down, an executive at the Japanese animation studio said...
Dicks: The Musical brings laughs to Toronto film festival
TORONTO — During a Toronto International Film Festival (TIFF) expected to lack star power, Bowen Yang brought excitement to the burgeoning crowd at the...