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The Feminine as Catalyst: Rethinking Art and Power
By Jodie Jose

Postmatter, Postmeaning
By The Cartellino Team

Palinodial Ground
By The Cartellino Team

Empowering a new generation of artists
By The Cartellino Team

A space for new forms of expression for longtime artists
By Pao Vergara

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

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

A city that kills in Mike Olea’s Kanayunan Patungong Kalunsuran
By Chesca Santiago
Mike Olea’s photographs trace killing as violence encoded in the daily life of the urban poor.

A wild plant grows through the concrete pavement
By Pao Vergara
Punk lives on in unexpected spaces through artists A.lien (Neil Arvin Javier) and Mark Tandoyog.

Tracing the Ant: Curator’s Talk with Mayumi Hirano
By Lk Rigor
In her second Curator's Talk, writer Lk Rigor speaks with Mayumi Hirano about the challenges and charms of curating—tracing the ant, so to speak,…

The Black Dog Rises: Javy Villacin’s Itum na Ido at Qube Gallery
By Alyssa Selanova
In his ‘Itum na Ido’, Javy Villacin combines past and future to chart the evolution of power.  

First impressions: Inside the OVERINKED Studio
By The Cartellino Team
As part of Prints Made in May 2023, Cartellino met with the members of up-and-coming Quezon City printmaking studio,…

Participating in the anti-monument in You Betrayed the Party Just When You Should Have Helped It
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
"The anti-monument is understated. It listens to the land and it listens to the people, creating space for long-marginalized histories and alterities…

From Me To You: Long Distance Worlds in Guided Agitation
By Pie Tiausas
At Gravity Art Space, experiences through sound collapse distance and time.

Beyond the line: A profile on Eugenia Alcaide
By Corinne Fernandez Garcia
“It is this emotion that compels, that makes art relatable, that turns a personal image universal.”

Molding, meaning, making: How Tahanan Pottery is building a communal home for contemporary ceramic pottery
By Nikki Ignacio
“Clay is the only material that replies to your touch. When you poke it and pull it, that’s actually you,…

Kanpeki: The Voice of Independent Philippine Artists Heard in Kyoto
By Koki Lxx
Koki Lxx visits Kyoto’s Voice Gallery, where curator Matsuo Megumi has teamed up with Nano to survey the state of independent art-making in the…

A Liminal Outer Space: On Celine Lee and Miguel Lorenzo Uy’s A Past, A Future
By Pie Tiausas
"What Lee and Uy simulate [...] lies in the interstices of our world and beyond — both here and there, and then and now — enclosing outer…

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

The Ghost of Memory in Lui Gonzales' Countable and Uncountable
By Pie Tiausas
Writer Pie Tiausas discusses Lui Gonzales’ newest collection of paper compositions built up from the artist’s recollections of the near…

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…