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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.
The solitary saga of Manong Frankie
‘When you write,’ Manong Frankie said in a voice that could fell ancient trees, ‘it’s not just with words.’ There is a trail of a life in every word.
The day the music died
Goodbye to the late, great Noli Aurillo, who chanted ‘Au au au!’ to the room before conjuring magic with a deck of cards or one guitar.
Philippines wins historic first award at Venice Architecture Biennale
Curators Khadka and Furunes take a Special Mention for “Structures of Mutual Support,” the Philippines’ first-ever Venice Biennale award.
Ronald Ventura’s hyper-realist Olympics
Two Tokyo shows timed to the Olympics: Ronald Ventura on anime eyes, emoji as language, and a reality we can no longer tell from the cartoon.
‘David Medalla has left us to enter the dream’
Trying to encapsulate David Medalla in one article is like reducing eternity to an hour. His partner and friends attempt it anyway.
Audio Inferno: Or how I learned to stop worrying and love ‘Best Audiophile Voices Vol. 4’
Bass traps, butcher blocks and a Doberman named Lucca: how to make a small room sing without selling a kidney for the privilege.
Ronson Culibrina’s monsoon madness & rainbow spills
Talim Island boyhood, an outrigger’s balancing arm and a witch under a weather-map umbrella: Ronson Culibrina paints the temper of the times.
Galleria Pandemia: Art in the Time of COVID
Ruiz, Ocampo, Miel, Borlongan and Justiniani on what the lockdown did to their practice, and why art is the last thing out of Pandora’s jar.