I MET Joey Velasco quite late in his rather truncated life of 43 years. I met him only in 2008, when his show “Manunubos” opened at Glorietta in Makati.

It was not hard to see where Joey was amidst the crowd of onlookers and well-wishers, as he was a big man.

With bold brushstrokes and striking colors, visual artist Rina Macasaet paints her-and to her surprise, other people’s-life stories
VIRGINIA “ RINA” Macasaet is a self-taught painter who can’t draw to save her life—yet will attack a canvas with her trademark bold brushstrokes and colors once a moment strikes.

The country’s biggest art fair aims to make art accessible to a bigger audience
NOW ONLY on its second year, ManilArt, fast becoming the country’s premiere showcase for the best in Filipino contemporary art, will open July 29 with an invitational gala at SM Mall of Asia’s SMX Convention Center.

In the physical world, there is no such thing as sequence. Matter and beings occur at the same time all the time, in arbitrary intervals and changing proportions. It is only the mind that makes sense out of things, that imposes logic on everything it can contain. So accustomed human minds have become to this process that they fail to recognize the grandeur of nature’s sensual and sensory simultaneity even at the presence of it.