As we celebrate National Heritage Month, Senator Loren Legarda, Chairperson of the Senate Committee on Cultural Communities, underscored the need to preserve and restore the country’s built heritage.
“Our heritage, both tangible and intangible, is constantly under threat of extinction. As we observe National Heritage Month, we are again reminded of our responsibility to protect and preserve the knowledge, traditions, practices, as well as natural and built treasures we inherited from our forefathers,” said Legarda.
The Senator highlighted the need to preserve […]
MANILA, May 12 — Art and politics merge as the Philippine Pavilion at the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale di Venezia officially opened today at the Palazzo Mora in the northern Italian city of Venice.
Entitled “Tie a String Around the World”, the Philippine Pavilion curated by Dr. Patrick D. Flores, takes Manuel Conde and Carlos Francisco’s film “Genghis Khan” as a starting point and curatorial reference for two contemporary projects by Jose Tence Ruiz and Manny Montelibano.
Conde’s “Genghis […]
Now that the Philippines has made its triumphant return to the Venice Biennale, we asked the main architect behind the comeback, Senator Loren Legarda, about why it’s so important for the country to join the world art stage, how she helped make it happen, and how local art has been a part of her own life practically since birth.
THE PHILIPPINE STAR: What made you work for Philippine participation in the Biennale?
SEN. LOREN LEGARDA: The puzzling absence of the Philippines in […]
Two international art groups picked the Philippine Pavilion as a “must-see” at the Venice Biennale International Art Exhibition.
Fine arts auction house Christie’s and United Kingdom-based artists information company a-n both recommended the Philippine’s comeback pavilion “Tie a String Around the World” at the Palazzo Mora to their followers, especially those who don’t have time to view all the 80+ national pavilions.
Five decades after its first appearance at the international art event, the Philippines returned to the Venice Biennale with an […]
Senator Loren Legarda expressed elation over the inclusion of the Philippine Pavilion in at least two lists of must-see national pavilions in the 56th International Art Exhibition – la Biennale di Venezia.
“Our return to the Venice Biennale after 51 years of absence is a great achievement already and for the Philippine Pavilion to be regarded as a must-see pavilion is very rewarding. It makes me even prouder of our artists,” said Legarda, principal advocate of the Philippine Art Venice Biennale (PAVB) […]
