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                    [ArticleID] => 2017808
                    [Title] => The mysterious gadget
                    [Summary] => With a size no bigger than the palm of one’s hand, it was a combination flashlight, compass, magnet, and conversion table.
                    [DatePublished] => 2020-06-01 00:00:00
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                    [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana
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                    [Title] => Songs from the painted area
                    [Summary] => 

A little bird told me, somewhere along Connecticut Street, a show ongoing and near at Art Informal is Pandy Aviado’s “Living in the Painted Area” (July 12-28), where the printmaker flirts and eventually makes hay with acrylic on canvas, various ones, which as the painter Tence Ruiz puts it, could be akin to a beautiful mistake repeated over and over, until the sun rises and sets and the world is new again.

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A discreet, private organization with the best intentions to promote art in our country is now accepting nominations for the 14th artist award, to be given to any Filipino artist with a considerable body of work but who has not received a major award even if well past the age of consent and majority, not least the 13 Artists Award given on a more or less regular basis by the state cultural agency, mostly for work that is yet to come.

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Sometime during the turn of the last millennium the newspaper illustrator Benjie Lontoc left the Philippines for Norway, land of the midnight sun, for cooler pastures as well to join his better half who’d been working as a nursing assistant there since the 1980s. [DatePublished] => 2008-07-28 00:00:00 [ColumnID] => 136244 [Focus] => 0 [AuthorID] => 1431668 [AuthorName] => Juaniyo Arcellana [SectionName] => Arts and Culture [SectionUrl] => arts-and-culture [URL] => ) [4] => Array ( [ArticleID] => 178020 [Title] => Digitally revised art [Summary] => Pinggot Zulueta was another struggling artist and newspaper illustrator in the ’80s, a fresh graduate from the University of Santo Tomas College of Fine Arts along España. Among his batchmates were Federico Sievert and Rowena Bancod, and together they looked up to their upperclassman Jose Tence Ruiz, then already doing the art work for Who magazine.
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