VISUAL ARTS
ART FAIR PHILIPPINES Until today at The Link, Ayala Center (Parkway Drive, Ayala Center, Makati).
ADAMSON UNIVERSITY ART GALLERY
Botong Francisco: A Nation Imagined, a traveling exhibition with a documentary film by Peque Gallaga, until Feb. 22. (900 San Marcelino St., Ermita, Manila) ✆ 524.2011
UNDERSTANDING CONTEMPORARY ART With Prof. Tony Godfrey, discover the different movements that have emerged since the 1960s, the artists that have defined these movements and the different art forms that are currently seen in exhibitions, art fairs and biennials. Feb. 23-24 from 5 to 8 pm at the Blue Room of the Ateneo Professional Schools (20 Rockwell Drive, Rockwell Center, Makati) ✆ 426.6488.
GALERIE ANNA
Ying Chun Zhan. Spring exhibition by Ceasar Cheng, Nei Nei Hui Chun and Lita Gelano. The works are executed in the classical Chinese manner using calligraphy, ink, traditional Chinese brushes on unsized Xuen paper. Until Feb. 22. (SM Megamall, Mandaluyong) ✆ 470.9869
VINYL ON VINYL GALLERY
Garden Memento by May is a story of the artist revisiting this lost paradise and awakening her forgotten youth, picking up trinkets she left behind from a distant time. Transit depicts our life as commuters featuring selected crews of street artists with LRT sculptures. Imprinted Memories by Indonesian artist Arkiv talks about his childhood memories. Until Feb. 24. (Warehouse 2, 2135 Chino Roces Ave., Makati) Email: vinylonvinylgallery.com
SCHOOL OF DESIGN AND ARTS, DLS-CSB
The Oxymoron of Patterns. Features art installations and sculptures from students of DSL-CSB, TIP, AdU, FEU, Mapua, NCST Dasmariñas, University of Perpetual Help, and FEATI University. Curated by Walther Ocampo and Gerry Torres. Until Feb. 27. (Pablo Ocampo St., Malate, Manila)
FINALE ART FILE
Stagnant Energies by Romina Diaz until Feb. 27. (2241 Chino Roces Ave., Makati) ✆ 813.2310
MOTIONS AND EMOTIONS Palette knife and capoeira painting by Henri Lamy until March 6 at Museo Pambata. (South Drive, Manila) Visit: www.museopambata.org
ART INFORMAL Pasyon by Cian Dayrit. Beyond by Jonas Eslao. In the Absence of Struggles by Jason Montinola. Until March 12. (277 Connecticut St., Greenhills East) ✆ 725.8518
MO_SPACE
Leeroy New's Partake Harder until March 13.
(Bonifacio High Street, Taguig). ✆ 856.7915
NINEVEH ARTSPACE
Exposing Narcissus by Proceso Gelladuga; Instinct by Ovidio Espiritu III; In Focus: Biskeg (Pangasinan Artist Collective); Amen Show (Artists' Works of Faith); Overload by Amador Barquilla and Jovan Benito; Unload Reload by 40 artists. Until March 15. (2452 1st Avenue, Villa Silangan Subd., Sta. Cruz, Laguna) ✆ (049) 501.6617
CULTURAL CENTER OF THE PHILIPPINES
Transnational Narrations: Paperworks. Participating artists come from Latin America, Europe, Asia, and the United States, and work in different mediums such as dry point, lithograph, woodcut, pen and ink, watercolour, gouache, silkscreen, and mixed media. Feb. 24 to April 17 at the Main Gallery and 3/F Hallway Gallery. (Roxas Blvd., Pasay) ✆ 832.1125
ATENEO ART GALLERY
Octoroon. An exhibition of contemporary Australian art by Peta Clancy & Helen Pynor, Bindi Cole Chocka and Steven Rhall. Until March 26. Other:
Zobel and Sanso. A prints and drawing exhibition by Fernando Zobel and Juvenal Sanso until May 28. Idiopathic Hues. The modernists' color palette: Selections from the Permanent Collection until May 31. (ADMU, Katipunan Ave., Loyola Heights, QC) ✆ 426.6001
MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART AND DESIGN
Michael Lin; Locomotion. Lin takes inspiration from the local urban landscape, zeroing in on the pedicab as the stimulus for this exhibit until May 21. (DLS-CSB, Dominga St., Malate, Manila)
AYALA MUSEUM
The Bejewelled Cosmos. Paintings, jewellry and photography from this and other worlds by Cristina Grisar Brias until Feb. 28. (Makati Ave., Makati) ✆ 759.8288
BENCAB MUSEUM Filipino Copper Engravings. 18th to 19th century
prints. Crafted Mythologies. Works by Anton del Castillo and Riel Hilario. Until April 10. (Km. 6, Asin Road, Tuba, Bagio City)
UP VARGAS MUSEUM
Daloy. A group exhibition, part of the Project Bakawan, until Feb. 27. Supplemented with lectures and workshops on Feb. 25. (UP Diliman, QC) ✆ 928.1927
YUCHENGCO MUSEUM Here is how the translation into the Mambo Beat looks like. A conceptual art installation by Roberto Robles on view until Feb. 27. (RCBC Plaza, Sen. Gil J. Puyat Aves., Makati) ✆ 889.1234
MUSEO NI HEN. MIGUEL MALVAR Artist Talk: Juanito Torres on Understanding and Appreciating the Value of Art History on Feb. 26, 1:30 pm. Free admission, registration is required. Current exhibit: The Battle of Zapote Bridge and
Lider ng Masang Pilipino. Permanent exhibit: Showcases the life and times of Gen. Miguel Malvar through visual arts, documents, artifacts, interactive displays and terminals. (Sto. Tomas, Batangas) ✆ (043) 784.8481
MUSEO NI MANUEL QUEZON Gallery 1-Quezon’s youth in Baler, his education, role in the revolution and return to civilian life; Gallery 2-Early political career of Quezon while the Philippines was under the American rule; Gallery 3-Quezon’s presidency of the Commonwealth; Gallery 4-Quezon’s leadership during the war and his exile to the United States; Gallery 5-The death and legacy of Manuel Luis Quezon. (Quezon Memorial Shrine, Elliptical Road, Diliman, QC)
MUSEO NI JOSE RIZAL CALAMBA A modernized museum that presents Rizal's life works and writings through visual artworks, artifacts, relics, personal effects, hologram, interactive displays and terminals. (Calamba City, Laguna) ✆ (049) 834.1599
MUSEO NI APOLINARIO MABINI TANAUAN The life and heroic deeds of Apolinario Mabini through inter-active learning, touch screen computer terminals, hologram, footage of Philippine-American war, augmented reality, paintings, original artifacts and more. (Tanauan City, Batangas) ✆ (043) 455-2105
MUSEO NG REPUBLIKA NG 1899 A museum dedicated to historical events that happened during the Malolos Congress in 1898 and the Malolos Republic in 1899. (Malolos, Bulacan) ✆ (044) 794.1674
METROPOLITAN MUSEUM
Bencab: The Filipino Artist. A retrospective exhibition of National Artist Benedicto Cabrera. An assemblage of more than a hundred works, many of which are on public view for the first time. Until Feb. 27. Humo. Artworks by the 2015 Latin American Roaming Arts Project (LARA) winner and museum's 2016 artist in residence, Florencia Guillen of Mexico until April 26. (BSP Complex, Roxas Blvd., Manila) ✆ 708.7828
MUSEO NI EMILIO AGUINALDO Retrace the story of our revolution and our journey towards independence through the architectural and interior details of the house where Philippine Independence was proclaimed. (Kaingen, Kawit, Cavite) ✆ (046) 484.7643
MUSEO NI JOSE RIZAL FORT SANTIAGO Encapsulates the great spirit of Dr. Jose Rizal within its maze of exhibited artifacts and its open spaces, inviting the viewer’s reverence and contemplation for Rizal’s acceptance of death with utmost dignity, calm, and nobleness. (Intramuros, Manila)
MUSEO NG PAGLILITIS NI ANDRES BONIFACIO Interactive displays on the events that led to the trial and execution of the Andres Bonifacio. (4780 Col. Riel, Poblacion 2-A, Maragondon, Cavite) ✆ 0917.5537375
MUSEO NI MABINI, PUP Chronicles the life and times of Apolinario Mabini through original artifacts, facsimiles of his writings, a touch screen timeline, large pop-up book biography, and other interactive exhibits. (PUP, Sta. Mesa, Manila) ✆ 522.1509
MUSEO NG KATIPUNAN-PINAGLABAN Site of the Battle of Pinaglabanan houses original bolos and anting-anting used by the Katipunan, interactive touchscreen monitors, holograms and augmented reality. (Pinaglabanan St., San Juan)
✆ 576.4336