All Stories
Everything we've published, newest first.
Christina Dy draws the dance of the untraceable
Bone spurs, grafted cacti and a dancer’s aging body: Christina Dy goes back to charcoal on paper for “Chimera: New Drawings” at The Crucible.
Michelline Syjuco and the strange afterlives of things
Rusted sheet metal, railway timber, bullet casings, wingless angels: Michelline Syjuco welds the discarded into talismans you can wear.
Katya Angara: Sorceress supreme
Books, gardens and gothic reveries: inside Katya Angara’s “Sorceress” at The Crucible Gallery, where materials take on lives of their own.
Maria Tan: Late nights, household objects, and the inextinguishable light of art
Maria conjures vast imaginary spaces using spoons, forks, combs, toothbrushes and beauty blenders, alongside conventional paintbrushes.
Manila is the place & Time is the story
Luxury watchmaking was never really about telling time. Lucerne Watch Week brings 16 watchmakers from Switzerland, Germany and Japan to the Ayala Museum.
Collected Irritations
A reader once wished my essays were collected in one book so she could hate everything in one place. Her wish is my command.
Why I Am Not A Normal Writer
As the paper I write for marks its 40th anniversary, it seems only fitting to look back at some of the highlights from this gloriously bonkers career.
Eye-catching today, iconic tomorrow: Inside the Ikea PS 2026 Collection
Three days in Älmhult, where a foldable chair hangs like art, a bench rocks like Oktoberfest, and a chair you sit on turns out to be air.
From Malabon to Venezia: Ronald Ventura mounts collateral show at 61st Venice Art Biennale
Four in the morning in Malabon in the Nineties, sopas at Connie’s, and a father who recognises his own town inside a drawing of Venice.
Malabon artist sets sail for Venice
Ronald Ventura transforms boat-body sculptures and lunar motifs into a meditation on water, survival, and the fragile ties between two cities.
‘Something sexy… happening in the Apocalypse’
Somatosonic’s performance wove together technology, sound, pole dance, audio-kinetic sculptures, live visuals, and a darkly brewing storm of sounds.
Pula ang Kulay ng Katapusan
Bakit pula? A foreword to Doktor Karayom’s book of raw, anatomical musings, drawn somewhere between bangungot and alaala.