Tag: art criticism
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Critic/ism in flux
May 30 – September 27, 2024Purita Kalaw-Ledesma CenterMakati, Metro Manila How was the fluctuating field of Philippine art criticism observed and supported by Purita Kalaw-Ledesma during her years, and how has it oscillated beyond her lifetime? Purita Kalaw-Ledesma believed that art criticism plays a vital role in the progress of arts and culture. As she…
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Rick Rocamora’s Dark Memories: Burying texts under photos, and vice versa
For a photography exhibition, the ones shot by Rick Rocamora for Dark Memories: Incarceration, Disappearance, and Death During Martial Law are actually not the main vehicle for the stories, but words. Dark Memories is part of the two-part show at Ateneo Art Gallery to continue to remember the country’s dark past that happened 50 years…
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AI Art in Fredrik Jameson’s Postmodern World
An art competition at a US state fair stirred the entire art world last September. The winning entry, ‘Théâtre D’opéra Spatial’, a work by Jason Allen created through Midjourney, sparked conversations online (mostly on the side of disapproval and/or alarm) about the usage of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to create art. In a rather simplistic and…
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Guillermo’s Wind of Change
It was 1981 when art critic Alice Guillermo published Endaya’s Wind of Change at the Observer magazine, a weekly supplement of The Times Journal. At that time, she was already an established art critic; from bagging the Art Association of the Philippines’ Art Criticism Award in 1976, to having her byline in multiple publications. It…