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PRESS RELEASE: Returning as a festival and fellowship of artists, collectors, and aficionados, ManilART’23 is set to open on October 11 in Taguig

With celebrations tempered by three years of pandemic, ManilART’23 returns as a festival and fellowship of artists, collectors, and aficionados with a grand Gala opening night on October 11 at the SMX Convention Center Taguig. This marks a triumphant return to form while integrating exciting new offerings, embodying the fair’s theme of “A New Contemporary.”

CCP transforms the third floor of the Tanghalang Ignacio B. Gimenez into a gallery and exhibition space, dubbed BULWAGANG ROBERTO CHABET.

There were also pieces of furniture—a fabulous aparador for which you had to have a spare P2 million before you raise your hand. A Cordillera hagabi, a rather ungainly prestige bench (the seat is slanted so you could slide down), fetched an incredible P22 million. Sculpture, santos, drawings, historical documents, maps were also on offer and fetched similarly high prices. WORKS ON PAPER. Prints by Manuel Rodriguez, Sr. (Juvenal Sansó (Flower Vendor, restrike, 4/30). At that rate, ordinary...