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IF You have time... Pls. do drop by Cultural Center of the Philippines starting tomorrow, June 17 at 3PM till August 21, for our Group Art Exhibition featuring artists from UST. ................................................. KULÔ (v.) is the state of boiling; to simmer or to bubble because of molecular friction resulting to heat; a condition associated with rage; seethe; irritation. KULÔ is an exhibition of artworks by selected alumni artists of the University of Santo Tomas. The artworks, old and new, contribute to the discourses of the pen and the sword, education and revolution—topics that have led to implicate Filip

By: Katrina Stuart Santiago reposted from http://www.gmanews.tv/story/211505/uncanny-romance-in-pacenas-after-mall-hours- The end of 2010 was special in that J Pacena's exhibit After Mall Hours happened, quietly and without much fanfare, in the new Blanc Gallery tucked in on the first floor of the Manila Peninsula in Makati City. Entering the clean white space that is Blanc's aesthetic across its growing number of galleries is an exercise in cognitive dissonance. The color of Pacena's works is in his usual light blues and grays, and on a superficial level it looks like it's still part of his interest in archival digital print, real bodies

It was the daily routine that I missed most, since I moved in a new home in Caloocan. That commute from the Taft MRT Station, I will then go down at Cubao Farmers Plaza, walk towards Aurora Blvd., passing by Araneta Coliseum and Gateway Mall leading to my previous apartment in Ermin Garcia, Cubao. I usually went home around 9 PM, when the store keepers are already preparing the daily sales inventory, closing down their shops and setting up the sheet that covers their mannequins' heads, for whatever purpose they did this I wasn't sure. During this time, buyers usually go for last minute purchases, some couples, group of friends head towards th