Tag: February 29, 2016

LINDSEY Lee’s new exhibit, “Cliché Untitled,” at Artery Art Space in Cubao, Quezon City, continues his critique of commodification in the art world as well as, as the title suggests, his crusade against stereotypes and hackneyed expressions in art.

Lee, who has established himself as a young abstract painter though lately veering into conceptual art and sculptural and taxidermal installations, makes use of blunt imagery in thought-provoking works so as to deliver his scathing condemnation of commoditization of creativity.

AN INSTRUCTOR of the colleges of Architecture and Fine Arts has come up with a multilingual “visual dictionary” of Philippine architecture to guide students of history and cultural heritage.

Illustrations in the “Diksiyonaryong Biswal ng Arkitekturang Filipino,” published by the UST Publishing House (USTPH), have been drawn by the author himself, Rino D.A. Fernandez, along with contributions by some of his students.

The 111-page dictionary uses local terminologies of “vernacular” or native Philippine architectural styles, such as those in Bontoc and Ifugao, as well as the Spanish and English terminologies.

The book is divided into three parts: First Societies, Hispanic Period and American Period.

SA pamamagitan ng malikhaing pagkatha, inilapit ni Mayette Bayuga ang urbanidad sa malumanay na alon ng dalampasigan, sa mga mahihiwagang kuweba, sa tuktok ng bulubundukin, sa pusod ng kagubatan, sa mga liblib na bayan-bayanan at sa mundong hindi pa nasisilayan ng sangkatauhan.

Sa bagong limbag na koleksiyon ng mga dagli at maikling kuwentong pinamagatang “Babae, sa Balumbalonan ni Hakob at iba pang mga Kuwento” (UST Publishing House, 2015), ibinalik ni Bayuga ang mga mambabasa sa panahon kung kailan tanging ang impluwensiya lamang ng kalikasan ang namamayani sa damdamin at paniniwala ng mga Filipino.

TAONG 1948 nang unang ipatupad ang pagsusuot ng mga bagong disenyong uniporme ng mga mag-aaral sa Faculty of Medicine and Surgery at Conservatory of Music.

Kasunod ng ihinaing panuntunan ng Unibersidad ukol sa pagsusuot ng mga uniporme upang magsilbing pagkakakilanlan ng bawat fakultad at kolehiyo, pinasinayaan ng konserbatoryo, sa pangunguna ng Conservatory of Music Student Council ang unang pagsusuot ng mga uniporme at pin noong ika-siyam ng Agosto ng nasabing taon.

Inumpisahan ng mga kababaihan sa konserbatoryo ang pagsusuot ng dalawang kulay ng pin bilang pagsimbolo sa kanilang kolehiyo.

Videos of rude taxi drivers shouting and even assaulting passengers have gone viral and enraged the public, even prompting lawmakers to revive a bill defining the “rights of taxi passengers.”

One video showed a taxi driver shouting expletives at a female passenger who had refused to pay additional fare. The driver even ran after the passenger and threatened to hit her.

I myself have encountered taxi drivers who do not want to use the meter or who demand a higher fare. I have likewise met drivers who drop you off even when you are still far from your destination due to heavy traffic.

Other drivers of public utility vehicles (PUV) are just as abusive.

THE DEATH of Letty Jimenez-Magsanoc, the Philippine Daily Inquirer’s esteemed editor in chief, has occasioned a look-back on how the newsroom has dramatically changed since the days of the penny press at the turn of the 20th century.

From a newsroom dominated by “macho” journalists, the news scene has been radicalized and even reinvented as women journalists have joined what used to be a “man’s world.”

In some instances, women editors have been bolder and more courageous than the men. This is particularly true of Magsanoc who was executive editor of a paper founded by another woman, Thomasian journalist Eugenia Duran-Apostol.