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A Paramount, A Love Supreme
By The Cartellino Team

Tyang Karyel finds her own way to happy island
By The Cartellino Team

In Cholo Cardenas' mind's eye
By The Cartellino Team

Reading Gale Encarnacion’s Pushkin Roberts Anthology
By Mara Fabella
"I found myself looking at each work in its entirety before checking their…

Expanding the Tapestry: Modern Myth-Making with Philippine Spirits
By Mara Fabella
Jean Karl Gaverza engages with local myth and folklore -- and invites readers to do the same.

Know That Platform: AITP Exhibitor Spotlight
By The Cartellino Team
Art in the Park's now on full swing. Here's a primer. 

Tyang Karyel Appreciates Everything Made by Hand
By The Cartellino Team
Tyang Karyel for both Cartellino’s Picks and CAVITY COLLECTIVE answers our First Edition artist questionnaire.

On Fleek: Space Encounters Gallery’s Comeback Is Lowbrow, Unibrow Galore
By The Cartellino Team

Astride the City: Artist Interview with Vin Quilop
By The Cartellino Team
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
By Jose Naval
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
By Francesca Testa
Designer toys have taken a turn at the dawn of the millennia. Even today,…

10 Contemporary Artists And Iconic Album Arts They Made
By Cielo Serale
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
By Francesca Testa
Brazillian-born, Philippine-based artist Ciane Xavier tells us and the spotlight is immediately turned from…

The Many Faces Of Appropriation Artist Yasumasa Morimura
By Cielo Serale
In 1988, Yasumasa Morimura photographed himself as the subject of Édouard Manet's Olympia,…

Classical Art Memes: Do Art Memes Devalue Art?
By Francesca Testa
The superficiality of classical and renaissance art can be a skin-deep subject for the resonant millennial…