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More than one reader has e-mailed me with a happy note that I seem to be returning to political writing. Not really. It’s sort of a breather. For weeks, talk in the house has been centered on history and mythology and, sometimes, I yearn to talk and write about something different. So, no, I’m not [...]
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(Today’s column. The photos do not appear in the print and online versions of the newspaper.)
My family spent two hours at the Blanco Family Museum on Sunday afternoon. My younger daughter Alex had been there before; one of the Blanco grandchildren is her classmate. It was an enriching experience. Art as I like it. No [...]
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A couple of weeks ago, I was invited to the media launch of a series of exhibits of Fernando Amorsolo’s paintings. Last week, I was again invited to the opening of the first of the eight exhibits at the Vargas museum in the U.P. College of Fine Arts building. I did not go to either [...]
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… And never tell them that the only things worth reading are those labeled by the high-brows as profound.
Alex reads a lot of manga online. There was a time when I worried that it might affect her reading pattern. Manga — or Japanese comics for the uninitiated — are read from right to left. She [...]
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So there’s this Yale art student named Aliza Shvarts who got herself pregnant “as often as possible” over a period of nine months (through artificial insemination) and then took drugs to abort all pregnancies. Her reason? She says it’s art. And she had her exhibit a couple of weeks ago.
The project, which begins showing Tuesday, [...]
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She’s 14 and she’s going to be an artist. Her dream is to be able to do what they do in Pixar and she diligently practices everyday. She reads her daily dose of Naruto then draws what she sees on the manga pages.
Published with Alex’s permission.
Above, Ino and Sasuke.
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This dreamcatcher had a monkey’s skull at the center. The price tag was P4,000.00 so we had to content ourselves with gaping at the thing. I should mention at this point that when we passed the stall and the girls were with us, I pointed out the dreamcatcher to Sam. You know, for someone interested in dreamcatchers, I thought it was a good idea to show it to her. Huge mistake. She bugged me endlessly to buy it.
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Speedy comes from a family of artists. Two of his brothers have a fine arts degree; another is an architect. Speedy isn’t bad with drawing and painting either. So, when both our girls showed artistic inclinations early on, I had no doubts where the genes came from.
There’s this sketch done in pencil that had been [...]
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My daughter Sam practising with my DSLR.
She’s getting better and better. But then again, I may be biased being her mother.
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