Lasalle College of the Arts, part of the University of the Arts Singapore (UAS), celebrated 355 diploma graduates at its 2026 Diploma Convocation on August 14, marking the institution’s 40th anniversary of arts education in Singapore. The convocation was held…
National Gallery Singapore has opened the first solo exhibition in about six decades devoted to Lai Foong Moi, one of the pioneering women of the Nanyang art movement, bringing renewed attention to an artist whose paintings captured the quiet human…
The Philippines on August 18 marks the 100th birth anniversary of National Artist for Visual Arts Larry Alcala, the beloved cartoonist and educator whose work turned the humor, quirks, and realities of everyday Filipino life into enduring cultural touchstones. Through…
Magdalena Gamayo has become more than a master of inabel weaving. She is a living link to an Ilokano craft passed from one generation to the next, and a symbol of the struggle to keep that tradition alive. Ilocos Norte…
Every August, the Philippines marks Buwan ng Wikang Pambansa, a month-long celebration that underscores the role of Filipino in shaping national identity. The observance, expanded from a week to the entire month under Proclamation No. 1041 signed in 1997, often…
Christopher Nolan’s “The Odyssey” is not the visual translation of Homer that many expected, nor does it seek to present the resourceful, many-sided hero of Emily Wilson’s celebrated rendering. It is something rarer and more austere: a modern morality play…
“Sanwits” is simply how many Filipinos say “sandwich”—an English word softened by decades of everyday use until it feels almost native. The name is fitting. Like the borrowed word itself, the sandwich came to the Philippines from elsewhere, only to…
The internet rarely waits for context. Last week, China’s state-run China Daily posted an AI-generated video featuring a monkey dressed in a barong Tagalog. In the animation, arms bearing the Japanese and American flags shove the monkey onto a rickety…
Recent debate over claims linking the Philippines’ northernmost province of Batanes to Taiwan has drawn renewed attention to the deep historical ties between the two neighboring islands. Yet history tells a different—and little-known—story: for a brief period in the 17th…
A major exhibition celebrating the 80th anniversary of The Little Prince‘s publication in France has opened in Hong Kong, offering visitors a rare opportunity to explore the life and legacy of its creator, French writer and aviator Antoine de Saint-Exupéry.…
