Review
Thriving, nay, Exultant Filipino/American Art in the Bay Area
Asian Art Museum, Thursday Talks May 21 2015 7:00-8:30 P.M.
After a decade of not following the Filipino-American “art scene” (I was busy completing a doctorate), I was treated along with some 200 people, to a visual feast of works by five Filipino/American artists presented by the Asian Art Museum Thursday Series. It […]
Review: Music, performance and the archive of memories: Harana, the search for the lost art of the serenade (film by Florante Aguilar and Benito Bautista)
Harana: The Movie is the kind of film that brings up a host of memories. It is also a film of missed opportunities. As viewers of film, we tend to check the visual (and aural) scenes with our personal experiences, albeit at times, distanced from time and place. As a Filipino in diaspora, who I believe […]
Review: Amigo (Starring: Garret Dillahunt, Chris Cooper, DJ Qualls, Dane DeHaan Directed by: John Sayles, Written by: John Sayles)
Much hype accompanied this movie release, after all it was a John Sayles film, known for titles such as Matewan, Lone Star and some 17 films he wrote and directed, a few of them, politically aware themes. Amigo would best fall under the latter category. He also recently published A Moment in the Sun (2011), a novel about […]
Review: Kanta Filipina: Theresa Calpotura, guitar
Kanta Filipina: Theresa Calpotura, solo guitar
Compositions, arrangements, & transcriptions of Bayani de Leon VGo recording 2010, Compact Disc Choosing driving music is typically unchallenging. All you need is that it matches the beat of the road. In this world of high speed freeways, jet travel, and lighting fast communications, traditional Philippine music may seem like […]
Review: “Lalawigan, A Contemporary Tagalog Song Cycle”, Cowell Theater, Fort Mason, San Francisco, 3.15.09
Music & lyrics by Florante Aguilar and directed by Alleluia Panis
I am a bit ambivalent about this production especially since it was advertised as an “opera”, definitely a misnomer, and especially since I am familiar with the choreographer and the composer/guitarist, both of whom I do admire. But more so, because at the outset, there […]
Review: The Romance of Magno Rubio (10.12.08 Skyline College Theater)
Playing to a sold-out theater crowd, the Bay Area production of the “The Romance of Magno Rubio” was well received and with standing ovation. The play, directed by Loy Arcenas from a play by Lonnie Carter, is adapted from Carlos Bulosan’s short story of the same title. Bulosan, as many students of the Filipino-American experience […]
“Land of the Morning…”: Pilipino American Artists at Stanford, May 2, 2008
Recently, at Stanford University, we had the opportunity to see and hear about the works of its Pilipino American M.F.A. students Michael Arcega and Lordy Rodriguez. They join a rare cohort of Pilipino Americans artists who have gone through the Stanford M.F.A program: Stephanie Syjuco, etc. The program is unique in that much of the […]
Pioneers of Philippine Art: Luna, Amorsolo, Zobel, San Francisco Asian Art Museum, Oct 19 2006 -January 7, 2007
Asian Art Museum, San Francisco
October 20, 2006- January 7, 2007
Now exhibiting at San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum, a few Lunas’, a few Zobels’, and a lot of Amorsolos’. Those of you who are familiar with Philippine painting will recognize Luna, the brother of Antonio Luna, a hero of the Philippine-American War; Amorsolo, who singlehandedly […]
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