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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

LEGACY artists bear an innate conundrum that comes with their prominent last names. In following the footsteps of their renowned predecessor, they face a fork in the road of whether to bank on the established family brand, or to veer away and carve their own path. Most, of course, prefer the latter. At least this

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.”

IN the copper-colored world of Filipino sculptor Ram Mallari, where zeppelins rule the sky and sprawling landscapes of scrapheap stretch far into the horizon, everything lives in perpetuity. After all, how can these whimsical creatures and structures die—or, at least, die again—if every bit of their being has already surpassed…

Speculation fueled the original jeepney-themed exhibition of Edwin Wilwayco in 2018, where the master abstract expressionist pondered in bright colors the grim future of the country’s de facto cultural icon. Five years later, the artist revisits the concept in his upcoming solo at Artes Orientes, now afforded the finality of…