‘Una Bulaqueña’: The Mona Lisa in a baro’t saya debuts at Louvre Abu Dhabi

She was once a mystery—just a gaze, a dress, and a silence that lingered for over a century. Now, Juan Luna’s Una Bulaqueña, the so-called “Mona Lisa of the Philippines,” steps onto the global stage as it goes on view this week at the Louvre Abu Dhabi. The portrait, a luminous rendering of a Filipina […]


2,000-year-old artefacts returned to Philippines after 50 years in Australia

The National Museum of the Philippines has received a remarkable donation: 17 ancient earthenware pots, dating back 1,500 to 2,000 years, repatriated from Australia after more than five decades in private care. In a handover ceremony held on May 30 at the Philippine Consulate in Sydney, the collection—believed to have been excavated from sites in […]