All Stories
Everything we've published, newest first.
The Art of Drowning in Visions
Glenn Bautista drew Rizal’s monument from a line by line transcription of his 39 poems, then vanished for 15 years. On the artist we forgot.
Beyond the veil: Carlos Quijon Jr. & Mark Salvatus to represent PH at the Venice Biennale
Curator Carlos Quijon Jr. and artist Mark Salvatus on taking the Philippines to Venice, and the curator’s shift from shaman to jack of all trades.
Who’s afraid of big, bad artificial intelligence?
Talking nicely to the chatbots in case they remember us later, and finding that the scariest thing online is still the people doing the typing.
People, events, dead centaurs, places
A family of dead centaurs in the Danish Pavilion, a German floor torn up to its Nazi-era joints: pavilion-hopping at the 59th Venice Biennale.
Steinway artist Joja Wendt plays boogie-woogie & Beethoven (with flying bumblebees in between)
The German pianist who swings from boogie-woogie to Beethoven, in Manila for Steinway & Sons’ The Artistry in Modern Precision at PGA Cars.
An invisible thread that binds us all
The Pavilion’s closing act reaches the Pinoys of Venice: the waiters, the healthcare workers, the household helpers, all one existential tapestry.
The art of Marco Ortiga: Through the looking glass, weirdly
The conceptual artist holds a mirror up to this ‘see-me world’, and instead of showing clarity and reflection, purveys cracks and malformation.
Nick Lizaso: 10,000 stories and one heart for the masses
After a life on stage and screen, the NCCA chairman calls himself simply an audience member now, watching people watch performances.
Heavy liquid: Milk of Dreams at the Venice Biennale
Surrealism, an emptied Russian Pavilion and a fountain smuggled out of Kyiv in a white Audi: the 59th Biennale, where the going gets weirder.
Backstage at the Biennale
Talking art with the curator and artists of the Philippine Pavilion over liters of Birra Moretti in the beautiful sinking city.
Aze Ong weaves a tale of pain & transcendence
Chronic pain in the hands of a fiber artist who crochets for a living: Aze Ong on making her largest work yet for Art Fair Philippines.
Miguel Syjuco & the ongoing war over who will tell the stories the world will know as true
The Ilustrado novelist on disinformation, power, and who gets to tell the stories the world will know as true, from a desk of literary detritus.