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Reading Gale Encarnacion’s Pushkin Roberts Anthology

"I found myself looking at each work in its entirety before checking their…

Expanding the Tapestry: Modern Myth-Making with Philippine Spirits

Jean Karl Gaverza engages with local myth and folklore -- and invites readers to do the same.

Know That Platform: AITP Exhibitor Spotlight

Art in the Park's now on full swing. Here's a primer. 

Tyang Karyel Appreciates Everything Made by Hand

Tyang Karyel for both Cartellino’s Picks and CAVITY COLLECTIVE answers our First Edition artist questionnaire.

Astride the City: Artist Interview with Vin Quilop

Whether it’s a boat leaving port at Roxas Boulevard or a 7-11 shopfront done in the style of Edward Hopper,…

SuperFlat: How Takashi Murakami Set The Stage For Post-War Japan

When Murakami first coined the term in 2001, it was to draw a connective line between the principles and two-dimensional…

Art Toys: Drawing the Line Between Art and Toys

Designer toys have taken a turn at the dawn of the millennia. Even today,…

10 Contemporary Artists And Iconic Album Arts They Made

Among the many album arts we've all come across with, a good lot is done by contemporary artists or have been…

The Universe of Ciane Xavier: Grim Secrets of the Human Psyche

Brazillian-born, Philippine-based artist Ciane Xavier tells us and the spotlight is immediately turned from…

The Many Faces Of Appropriation Artist Yasumasa Morimura

In 1988, Yasumasa Morimura photographed himself as the subject of Édouard Manet's Olympia,…

Classical Art Memes: Do Art Memes Devalue Art?

The superficiality of classical and renaissance art can be a skin-deep subject for the resonant millennial…