Alternative Contemporary Art Studio

31/08/2024

"The Kneeler" (2024), wood, cushion, polyester resin, framed digital print, audio loop

Presently on view, Jose Joya Gallery, UP Cebu

28/04/2024

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/04/28/style/pope-visits-venice-biennale-intl/index.html?fbclid=IwZXh0bgNhZW0CMTAAAR16BBGcFoCu9vQ-wbLbUMoKnBe4fMJ8Fb5B3TLmuyAXtt_9bx_4OZMYMMQ_aem_Afi3EBrE1Ai9QtmARldzT9jpEhmBjmJ2pLMs2Lk0w1M6S7tJnWwLpbFINJwaagi0beNC7nXDTXCou04cMG9ckEVo

Pope Francis has become the first pontiff to visit Venice’s contemporary art festival during a trip which saw him visit a female prison and rehabilitate the reputation of a pioneering American nun artist.

09/04/2024

BIOSCAPES

The works in this exhibition engage architecture understood in its most liberal sense—as the organization of spaces and times. Here, architecture pertains to the built environment: the roads and highways, the urban landscape, the informal settlements, the vending contraptions, the metropolitan centers and the countryside, the malls, the cities and towns, but it also alludes to intangible environments that govern movements of bodies in physical and virtual spaces, in institutional and pedagogical fields, in the ecologies of art, etc., etc. Whereas classical mechanics see space and time as non-subjective, material, components of the world, contemporary thought teaches us otherwise that they are more than just that. They are manifestations and expressions of certain worlds, ripe with contestations, mediations, meanings, and values. In the first place, the organization of spaces and times, i.e. architecture, revolves around certain conceptions and notions of the body, which is to say that architecture is in fact juridical of the body by default. It articulates as much as it entraps, it enlivens as much as it entombs, it regulates as much as it frees, and sometimes it empowers as much as it subjects the body to social control. Architecture, in other words, shows us that the body is a space-time for and of mediations and contestations. Architecture compels us to resist.

Nomar Bayog Miano

09/04/2024

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/Lm4JKEn8gCVVcfWA/?mibextid=Nif5oz

08/03/2024

https://pluralartmag.com/2024/03/03/amid-art-fair-season-whose-work-goes-unseen/?fbclid=IwAR20XtMGyM2hcX8sLzsVVVjnijnPKQtbVgrE95O6nPXJz2B5ckOeo5CNHZk

“Please eat

16/07/2023

https://news.artnet.com/market/albrecht-durer-prints-2334961

Goldin+Senneby are working with the Whitworth to monetize an original impression in the museum's collection.

14/07/2023

18/10/2022

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/photo-booth/what-vivian-maier-saw-in-color?utm_social-type=owned&utm_brand=tny&utm_source=facebook&utm_medium=social&mbid=social_facebook&fbclid=IwAR0eTsWh8Qkb0eQR_oarEGQMYc9dbOQiSVzTOW8OSq3YglIV1lcMq1vq_qg

The mysterious photographer’s vivid work in color gets its turn in the limelight.

18/10/2022

16/10/2022

https://www.stylist.co.uk/visible-women/suffragettes-vandalised-art-paintings-national-portait-gallery-london-millais-rokeby-venus/186878

Vandalising artwork was a favourite protest method for British suffragettes.

11/10/2022

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/ct-xpm-2007-12-16-0712140430-story.html

Dainty. Floral. Romantic. Fun.Fifty years ago, at the high-water mark of steel and glass modernism, those adjectives described architectural no-no's. You didn't decorate a building. You stripped it of ornament (or at least you made it look that way). You didn't speak of beauty, which sounded old-fas...

03/10/2022

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJPLiT1kCSM

John Oliver discusses some of the world’s most prestigious museums, why they contain so many stolen goods, the market that continues to illegally trade antiq...