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Junyee gazing at his red root-like sculpture of a head on a wooden table by lattice windows

Junyee through time & space

From painting the faces of the dead in a Cebu funeral home to the Gawad CCP Para sa Sining: the long calvary of the father of Philippine installation art.

By Igan D'Bayan · August 26, 2024
A smiling man in cream stands among marble tables, yellow chairs and patterned tile at Siklab+

For a boldly Filipino food experience, seek and you shall Siklab+

Two years and eight corporate chefs to get the crispy pata right: inside the Bistro Group’s first Filipino restaurant, at Shangri-La Plaza.

By Igan D'Bayan · August 15, 2024
Kaye Tinga, president of the Cultural Center of the Philippines, standing in a black top against a textured wall with a minimalist abstract painting

Kaye Tinga: ‘The CCP is more than just a building; it is a brand, a living entity.’

‘The CCP is really more than just a building; it is a living entity that encompasses everything about art and culture in our country.’

By Igan D'Bayan · August 12, 2024
The blue dial Patek Philippe Ref. 5330G-001 World Time watch with denim-patterned calfskin strap, displaying time zones and dates

Patek Philippe: How tech intersects with aesthetics

A World Time watch whose date follows you across zones, and a Greenbelt boutique: Deepa Chatrath on making things useful and beautiful.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 28, 2024
Senator Loren Legarda standing between chefs Rhea and Jay Jay SyCip inside The Fatted Calf restaurant in Tagaytay

Farm to table, heart to heart

After a volcano, a pandemic and a lost lease, chefs Jay Jay and Rhea SyCip’s Fatted Calf finds its footing in Tagaytay, one farm-to-table plate at a time.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 25, 2024
Group portrait of TGI Fridays One Ayala team members in their black uniforms posing together inside the restaurant

Mojo risin’: A tale of set meals and endless mojitos

Bottomless mojitos, set meals and a little existential drift: an afternoon at TGI Fridays One Ayala, where P345 buys as many mojitos as the heat demands.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 18, 2024
Chef Josh Boutwood, in a white t-shirt and canvas apron with a handlebar mustache, stands before the blue-tiled open-fire grill of his kitchen

Chef Josh Boutwood’s appetite for evolution

The chef behind Manila’s most restless kitchens on why he never designs a menu until he is standing in the room, and the chapter he is closing now.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 11, 2024
Composite of the Philippine Pavilion community library: installed inside the Venice Arsenale on the left, rebuilt outdoors in Angat, Bulacan on the right, where visitors gather along its slatted walls

Philippine Pavilion’s ‘Structures of Mutual Support’: From the Biennale to Bulacan

From an old armory in Venice to a barangay in Angat, the award-winning community library goes home to the people who helped build it.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 6, 2024
The Maxell “blown away” ad remade with Cthulhu: a suited tentacled listener in a leather armchair blasted backward by a loudspeaker, scarf and lampshade streaming, a record sleeve in his lap

Moving in Stereo: Why do audio fools fall in love?

Soundproofing is not acoustic treatment, the way Ryan Adams is not Bryan Adams. The never-ending build of a listening room, failing better.

By Igan D'Bayan · July 2, 2024
Maria Angelica Tan seated in her studio beside a large swirling blue and gold painting

The empire state of Maria Angelica Tan’s art

A Filipina in her early twenties, a Hudson Square gallery, and leftover adobo before the bus: Maria Angelica Tan distills New York into paint.

By Igan D'Bayan · June 3, 2024
Installation inside the Philippine Pavilion at the Venice Biennale featuring a large grey boulder with a brass horn sticking out and hanging white textile sheets

Mountain song: PHL Pavilion brings the aura of Banahaw to the Biennale

In the Philippine Pavilion, visitors walk among fabric, fake stones and sound, following the light. Mark Salvatus brings Banahaw to Venice.

By Igan D'Bayan · May 20, 2024
A smiling woman in black holds an iced coffee beside a glass pastry case at the Daily by Bo’s Coffee store

Daily grind & morning rituals

Bo’s Coffee spins off Daily, a hand-poured brand born in the pandemic, from 10 cloud stores to 12 cafés built to look like bounce houses.

By Igan D'Bayan · May 16, 2024