(version 1.2.1, with pictures + an expanded conclusion. With thanks to Fatima Lasay for comments leading to these revisions)
“For ten years, Sid was my lighthouse. Now he is gone.”
I wanted to leave it at that, if at all. Sid was a very private man, you see, and now more than ever, I felt the need […]
BluPrint Magazine, Nov 2002
The magazine commissioned this essay at the height of the Parisian Life scandal, during the painting’s “extended stay” at the Bureau of Customs. to put things mildly, it was hell getting the interviews. GSIS Museum Director Eric Zerrudo even had to meet me incognito (unshaven, and in house clothes!), in some roach-infested […]
Still-unpublished (and still-unpaid for!) manuscript. Supposed to be the final story for a new publisher’s revamped magazine’s aborted special issue on Collecting. December 2005.
The era of dirt-cheap Philippine art is about to end.
Increasing international demand, an exodus of visionaries, and skyrocketing production/ exhibition costs will finally be allowed to take their toll, in a last-ditch […]
