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Jana Benitez answers and shares the call of the wild
By Pao Vergara
With a wide range of styles following her childhood entry into the art world,…

Being Kids For Kids: Culture-conscious action toward empowered futures
By The Cartellino Team
"We’re trying to create a world where no matter how different your passions are, everyone should be able…

A decade of Jaime Pacena II’s creative practice: There’s art in all the in-betweens
By James Luigi Tana

A Conversation: Brushing histories, carving space
By Lyra Garcellano and Lec Cruz
In reflections on their personal artistic process, the artists invite readers and viewers of art to engage…

of forgetting, of remembering
By James Luigi Tana
"Writing has to side with collective truths and it should compel one to interrogate…

This is Not MO_Space: Traversing a space of unknowing
By Sean Carballo
"This is Not MO_Space gathers…

Fotomoto 22 brings us “Home”
By Marz Aglipay
Fotomoto 22 opens up to more photographers for its second edition themed “Home”.

How memory weaves a thread of justice
By Pao Vergara
In its second iteration in the Ateneo Art Gallery, a collaborative exhibit between researchers, autobiographical…

Collaging Worlds: The Contemporary Spiritual in Jet B. Leyco’s Ispirituwal Transaction
By Pie Tiausas
"With the collapse of the search for an archaic singular truth then comes the…

To the fires that never go out: An ode to the myth, method, and madness in Iya Regalario’s Tag-Apoy
By Nikki Ignacio
“Fire is life and death, the beginning and end, constantly burning through…

Score the matrix until you cut through: The art of Printmaking for the People
By The Cartellino Team
“Printmaking stands at the front lines of progressive propaganda. It…

Synthetic Condition: Relics of the Personal World like Shed Snakeskin
By Carl Cervantes
As one's identity, memories, and feelings emerge from the depths of the psyche, they find synthetic expressions,…

Pio Abad: Exorcising the Ghosts of the Marcos Regime
By Mara Fabella
After ten years of research into the conjugal dictatorship of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, Pio Abad's Fear…

Writer and director Alex Westfall critically imagines history through archives and fiction
By Zea Asis
“A lot of my work stems from the existential question 'How did I get here? [...] What would have happened…

Remembering and Retrieving in Ateneo Art Gallery's Ligalig
By Meg Genuino
"...With only less than a month before the registered population is given a chance to choose the nation’s…

The Regions in Focus at the 10th Art Fair Philippines
By Marz Aglipay
With this year’s edition of Art Fair Philippines going hybrid, featured art groups from the country’s…

Ang INK’s 30th Traces Its Role in Children’s Literature
By Wil Guzmanos
Nina Martinez, the current president of Ang INK,…

Shedding Light: FotomotoPH on Their Inaugural and Connection through Portraiture
By The Cartellino Team
“Fotomoto” is a play on the words “photo…

Meet Your Instructor: Steph Alvarez on Her Practice of Art
By The Cartellino Team
"With painting still life (in my class), students…

It takes many twos
By Alain Zedrick Camiling
When it comes to art writing, there's often much to consider; in this estimate, two too many.

Ardent readings
By Carlos Quijon
"Ardent readings lead us to the emergence of something exemplary or to finding felicity in forms or articulations…