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A French woman threw out a big scarf with a turkey on it and asked Sheeler if he knew Kermit. He didn't. Kermit, as it turns out, is Kermit Oliver. He lives in Waco, Texas, and he's the only American to ever design scarves for Hermès. "As a matter of fact," the woman told Sheeler, "he is a postman." Read more.
Until somebody beats the record-breaking bid in an auction for the work of a contemporary Asian artist, Ronald Ventura might always be known for his large-scale work “Grayground.” The 39-year-old artist has been painting and creating for many years now, but the Sotheby’s Modern and Contemporary Southeast Asian Paintings auction in Hong Kong in April 2011 proved to be an eye-opener—for art collectors and artists alike. Read more.
Peque Gallaga—acclaimed filmmaker behind 1980s classics “Oro, Plata, Mata,” “Virgin Forest” and “Scorpio Nights”— was commissioned by the Ayala Foundation Inc. to make a documentary on the late National Artist, muralist Carlos “Botong” Francisco. Read more.
According to Karen Kua-Lerma, president of Salcedo Auctions, the “tremendous upsurge” in the prices that both foreign and local buyers are willing to pay for Philippine art indicated the growing reputation of Philippine artists in the international art scene, as the country’s own image abroad has improved dramatically since the Aquino administration took over in 2010. Read more.
Thieves broke into a Rotterdam museum on Tuesday and walked off with works from the likes of Picasso, Monet, Gauguin and Matisse potentially worth hundreds of millions. Read more.
The 13 winners are Kiri Lluch Dalena, Joey Cobcobo, Marina Cruz, Riel Hilario, Robert Langenegger, Michael Muñoz, Wawi Navarroza, Jan Leeroy New, Kaloy Olavides, Renan Ortiz, Mark Salvatus, Rodel Tapaya and Costantino Zicarelli. The artists work within visual art forms such as painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography and video installation. Read more.
Only two Filipinos to date have risen to the Valhalla of the international auction arena—or the Million-Dollar Club for artists whose works have hit the seven-figure mark. The first ever was Juan Luna, who, on his 145th birth anniversary on Oct. 27, 2002, scored the sensational price of $1 million in an international auction for “Parisian Life.” As controversial after death as he was in life, Luna’s record, for the highest price to be paid for any Filipino artist at auction, would remain unbroken until almost a decade later. Read more.
Throughout history, the Spanish town of Cuenca has witnessed, in no particular order, Muslim domination, Napoleonic attacks, authoritarian oppression and the religious inquisition hurling offenders into a ravine. Read more. Mentions Fernando Zobel!
Photojournalist Kim Komenich talked to many Filipinos, took their photos for his American newspaper and won the Pulitzer Prize for his coverage of the 1986 Edsa People Power Revolution. But he forgot to say thanks to most of the people he had photographed. So 25 years later, he came back to the Philippines, tracked down the people in his photos, talked to them again and now he wants to show how grateful he is by going around universities and museums in the United States to show the photos that marked the highlight of his career and immortalized what he called the “grandfather” of people power revolutions. Read more.
Manila/New York-based design manager Brian Tenorio will be kicking off Philippine Design Week this October 13 on national and international TV with his new show “Design Para Sa Lahat”, the first local television show on design, business and travel. Read more.
Take a trip through the more than hundred-year history of Philippine art at the Ateneo Art Gallery with its Philippine Art Lecture Series. Taught by experts in the fields of colonial, academic, modern and contemporary art, the series will give participants an overview of the development of Philippine art from the 19th century all the way up to today’s lively art scene. Read more.
Tell me what art you like and I'll tell you who you are. This principle is at the core of ArtStack, a new social network exclusively dedicated to the visual arts. Read more.
On March 1, 1978, the Philippines’s first Executive Secretary Jorge B. Vargas donated his collection of art, stamps and coins, library, and archives to his alma mater, the University of the Philippines. The Vargas Art Collection comprises works by Filipino artists from the late 19th century, the American and Japanese occupation, and the postwar years. Read more.
The Brooklyn Museum just released figures pertaining to this past weekend’s “GO Brooklyn” initiative, two days of borough-wide open studios in which members of the public were invited to vote for their favorite artists after visiting their work spaces, with the top 10 vote-getters eligible to be included in a group show at the museum in December. The impressive stats prove that many, many people did actually go to “GO Brooklyn.” Read more.
The National Media Museum in the U.K. announced today that it has discovered the world's first color moving pictures. The reels were found inside a museum vault, hidden inside an old tin dating back to 1899. The remarkable discovery is set to re-write the history of early film. Read more.
In the past three years, the Manila International Art Fair (ManilART) has established itself as the best venue to view the finest in Philippine visual art. It takes most of the Philippine’s more notable galleries and presents a culmination of the works of their artists and exhibitions in an art fair spanning several days— curated in a way that allows the event to become a survey of the latest in the visual art community. Read more.
In a recent media launch, popular tourist guide and heritage advocate Carlos Celdran described BGC as “a city with soul,” with the bus tour meant to emphasize its four passions: “Nature, science, arts and sports.” Read more.