Forest Once News Today

Lua Kobayashi’s installation, “Where a Forest Once Grew,” is on view in Westwood Village through Feb. 18.

Luis “Junyee” Yee, Jr.: A Portrait of an (National) Artist as Filipino Photo by Richie Macapinlac. 2021 ARTIST’S PROFILE   I first met Junyee when I was a student at the University of the Philippines in the early seventies. Together with some artist friends, we would later visit him when he began living in the campus of UP, Los Banos, which has become his home and a source of indigenous materials and inspiration for the site-specific installations for which he became widely known as the ...