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The day the world burst open for Jazel Kristin
By Pao Vergara

Sculptor Raymund Fernandez isn’t afraid of death
By Denzel Yorong

The building blocks of Baraks: Artists at the heart of the collective/space
By Lk Rigor
“Fundamentally, artists are at the heart of this collective/space, so we understand the economics of how it is…

How farmers and cultural workers teamed up to preserve Bulacan’s agricultural, built, and artistic heritage 
By Pao Vergara
“Tayo ang bukid,” (“we are the meadow”) reads…

An art of memory in crisis
By Sean Carballo
"In these works, looking is no ambiguous act. To look — clearly and intentionally — lands as a corrective…

The Joys and Abundance in the Life and Art of Inday Cadapan
By Mara Fabella
"The simplicity in her form and her lack of a formal artistic background had many questioning her skills. But Inday…

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 in the active exploration of the past, to…

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 subjects, and artmakers puts on a…

Mass Media and Martial Law in Alfredo Esquillo's Bread and Circuses
By Meg Genuino
As the country prepares for the inauguration of a new president, Esquillo’s works beckon viewers to look back — as far as the collapse…

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 of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts unearths…

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 leaders, Ligalig presents a diversity…

Subjugation through Adoration: Bona (1980) Reviewed
By Raissa Azarcon
Interesting to note, too, is that the film was made and released when the Philippines was embroiled in the Marcos dictatorship.

Why First Edition?
By The Cartellino Team
Our running thoughts, the beneficiaries, and, possibly, how art can matter.