All Stories
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Art, The Day After
Written from inside the 2020 lockdown: what a random Tuesday will taste like again, and why art does not thrive in the bleakest of moments.
A flood of words, water & wonder at the closing ceremony of the Venice Art Biennale
As the Biennale closes, Mark Justiniani’s mirrored “Island Weather” seems to ripple out of the Philippine Pavilion into the flooding lagoon city.
Houses of Wax and Other Hits
Vinyl resurgence, my ass. Digging through Paris, Berlin, Amsterdam and Budapest for the record you did not know you were looking for.
The Art of War in the House of the Rising Sons
De Niro, Pacino, and a neighborhood video store ran by a balding guy we called the Caterpillar. Notes on a boyhood measured in VHS tape.
‘The Irishman’ Cometh: Robert De Niro & Al Pacino star in the last great mob epic
Martin Scorsese’s latest film traces the rise and fall of wiseguys and made men in a subtler, more sober, and contemplative manner.
Robert De Niro & Al Pacino: An afternoon with the kings of New York
First of two parts: an afternoon in New York with Robert De Niro and Al Pacino, the kings of New York on Scorsese, mortality and the last great mob epic.
How a bullfrog keeps Jaime Laya awake when it rains
Dr. Jaime Laya on the frogs he had shipped in from the Candaba swamp, the somber santos and vintage narra indoors, and the first sentence he labors over.
If Filipiniana is a flower, then Jaime Laya is a gardener
A morning in Jaime Laya’s Quezon City compound: a bahay kubo built without nails, barandilyas off a demolished house, books stacked as a shelter.
At home with Jun & Menchu Lopez: Where every wall is a door and the Force is always brewing
A house tour where every wall turns out to be a door, the coffee is always brewing, and the Force runs through a home in a galaxy not so far away.
At home with Martin Honasan & Barbie Almalbis: Cradle of art, love & a cat named after Vernie Varga
A house tour with Martin Honasan and Barbie Almalbis: a cradle of art and love, boxes of keepsakes nobody throws out, and a cat named after Vernie Varga.
Raul Francisco & Joanna Preysler-Francisco: Dark, seductive art in the house of love
A Parisian dream in the middle of manic Metro Manila: the Franciscos’ art-filled flat, and the love story beneath the chiaroscuro.
Island of souls
Mark Justiniani and curator Tessa Maria Guazon on Island Weather, the glass-and-steel archipelago built for the 58th Venice Art Biennale.