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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.
Somatosonic at The Crucible
Marco Ortiga, Tad Ermitaño and Christina Dy bring homemade instruments, pole dance and cheerful chaos to their “Pneumatic Synergetic” show at The Crucible.
Frankfurter Buchmesse 2023: Why books matter in a time of war & the ongoing assault on truth
Books are being banned, censored and even burned in parts of America. In Germany, they hold the world’s largest trade fair for books.
The Philippines is Frankfurt Book Fair 2025 Guest of Honour
Ten years after Indonesia, the Philippines lands the Frankfurt Book Fair Guest of Honour slot. We want this, we dreamt of this, we have earned this.
Excess equals exuberance in Singapore show focusing on Philippine art
‘What makes Singaporeans respond remarkably well to artworks by Filipinos? I think it’s the sheer liveliness, the vigor, and the energy of Philippine art.’