Category Archives: kultura
check out charice’s cheeks, or it’s a vicky belo world, good lord, save us!
and no, this isn’t about hayden kho, at this point staying in bad relationships and publicizing them seems more stupid than it is unacceptable. but really, the way this woman has crossed that line between selling beauty and making it … Continue reading
Art For Our Times in Dekalogo 2010
a version of this was published in the Arts and Books Section of the Philippine Daily Inquirer, June 21 2010. In May 1898, Apolinario Mabini wrote his Dekalogo, a list which reconfigures the 10 commandments into one that does not … Continue reading
Heroism and cliché in Looking for Juan 2010
a version of this was published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, May 31 2010. It is everything and fantastic this CANVAS project that is Looking For Juan. After all, the overwrought discussion of identity seems to be at a dead-end, … Continue reading
when ‘i love you’ is enough
Not quite impressed with the valentine exhibit at Manila Contemporary in February – save for Angelo Suarez’s “Not the Object, But the Energy It Consumes Over Time” and Rachel Rillo’s “Keep It Taut” – I was ready to be disappointed … Continue reading
Art thinks highly of itself in “The Death of Death”
A version of this was published in the Philippine Daily Inquirer, April 19 2010, in the Arts and Books section. There was nothing exciting about the façade of the space where “The Death of Death (is alive and kicking”) (SM … Continue reading