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Shadows fall and I try
Grief tech, Black Mirror bots, and memories of Nanay: she murdered the English language but was Yoda, Obi-Wan, and Darth Maul rolled into one.
A raising of curtains: Senator Loren Legarda & the story of the PHL Pavilion in Venice
Over lunch in Venice, Senator Loren Legarda recounts how she willed the Philippines back to the Biennale after a 51-year absence.
A night of dragon potions and Red Lotus eaters
A dinner of Sichuan Sour and Shanghai Spritz becomes a night of wild print-industry tales, at a resto-bar built for lowering your defenses.
Cecile Licad on concert memories and the loss of a soulmate
It was an emotional moment for Anton Huang when Licad dedicated the Schumann-Liszt piece to Nedy Tantoco. ‘Sad that it was actually my mom’s last concert.’
Savoring secrecy at Secret Recipe
A Malaysian cafe built on one marble cheesecake returns to Manila, where laksa and rendang share a menu with Irish lamb shanks and tom yum
Communing with Japanese spirits
Not guzzling but communing: an evening of Kagoshima sweet potato and barley shochu, four cocktails and folklore at a Bonifacio Global City izakaya
Andreea Medar’s love letter to a lost village
Andreea Medar connects those drawn to the ghostly, the abandoned and the disappearing with all the lonely voids where love used to be.
Tropic of wonder
Kahlo and Rivera hung as part of a region rather than a greatest-hits parade: Tropical at the National Gallery Singapore, 200 works deep.
Karen Davila: ‘I live my own empowered woman story and I know every Filipina has hers’
From the floodwaters of Real, Quezon to UN Women National Goodwill Ambassador. The only way to know what is on the ground is to be on the ground.
I am therefore AI: Personhood probed in Singapore Art Museum show
Imagine a blackish mirror reflecting a sky-net of electric sheep playing an imitation game soundtracked by Alphaville’s Forever Young.
PHL Pavilion holds roundtable discussion: A journey through the arteries of cities & ideas
Manila was once called the Venice of the East. A roundtable on estuaries and esteros closes the Philippine Pavilion at the Architecture Biennale.
Salman Rushdie at 75th Frankfurt Buchmesse: ‘It’s even more important to create beauty in a time of ugliness’
A year after the stabbing, Rushdie takes the Peace Prize in Frankfurt and talks about putting fear in a little box in the corner of the room.