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H.K.’s Xyza Cruz Bacani wants to meet the Filipino nannies in NYC, visit all museums
By Cristina DC Pastor What comes to mind when you hear New York? Huge city with a nice art scene and burgers! What NYC attraction are you dying to photograph? The streets of NYC. They look so interesting. Any Broadway show you’d like to watch? No idea, but I would love to visit all the […]
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Clarisse Pastor-Medina uses coffee as medium to express her Filipino identity
By Cristina DC Pastor Where some of us see nasty ring stains, she sees a sustainable art medium. For seven years now, Batangas-born Clarisse Pastor-Medina (no relation to this writer) has been painting with coffee and staging solo exhibits with nothing more than her large canvases and presumably her Batangas ‘barako.’ “I like the medium,” […]
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Virgil Carrillo creates abstract art using cake tools
Bergen County-based artist Virgil Carrillo will be featured in a group exhibit, Pathway to Abstraction, at Chelsea’s Agora Gallery. The exhibition opens on December 23 and runs until January 15, with a reception on January 8. Virgil makes use of cake icing tools and silicone wedges, in conjunction with the usual paintbrush, to craft his […]
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An artist can never be too busy to take care of his health
By Ramon Gil A few weeks ago, after a little too much ‘lechon kawali,’ I felt some tightness in my chest. Since I have a history of heart disease, I thought ‘better safe than sorry’ and went to the emergency room at Lennox Hill, just in case. While they didn’t find anything wrong at first, […]
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The Filipino Renaissance: Finding a viable balance between community dialogue and popular theater (Part 3)
This latest Investigative Reporting Project chronicles important milestones in Filipino American theater history in New York. The author, Renee Barabad Floresca, is an actor, director, educator and writer whose latest production, “Undressing the Fragments,” is playing Oct. 24th to 26th at Wow Café Theatre at the Lower East Side between Bowery and 2nd Avenue. — […]
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‘Here Lies Love’ provides full-time jobs to FilAm actors (Part 2)
This latest Investigative Reporting Project chronicles important milestones in Filipino American theater history in New York. The author, Renee Barabad Floresca, is an actor, director, educator and writer whose latest production, “Undressing the Fragments,” is playing Oct. 24th to 26th at Wow Café Theatre at the Lower East Side between Bowery and 2nd Avenue. — […]
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INVESTIGATIVE REPORTING PROJECT: The first wave of Asian American actors were Filipinos (Part 1)
By Renee Barabad Floresca This latest Investigative Reporting Project chronicles important milestones in Filipino American theater history in New York. The author, Renee Barabad Floresca, is an actor, director, educator and writer whose latest production, “Undressing the Fragments,” is playing Oct. 24th to 26th at Wow Café Theatre at the Lower East Side between Bowery […]
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Ricky Montilla’s art exhibit in Chelsea opens Oct. 10
Painter Ricky Montilla is coming to Agora Gallery through a group exhibition called Modalities of Expression. The exhibit opens on October 10 and continues until October 30. The opening reception takes place on October 16, at 6 p.m. At the borderlands where Impressionism moves towards Realism, Montilla evokes the threefold language of color, shape and […]
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For U.S.-, Russia-trained Rowena Arrieta, teaching piano to young kids is ‘paying it forward’
By Ricky Rillera More than two decades ago, Rowena Arrieta, the Philippines’ only Soviet-mentored concert pianist conquered New York with an exceptional performance at the Lincoln Center. Although it was her debut recital and her first at this huge stage, her performance was given critical acclaim. The New York Times writes she had this ‘fevered, […]