NHCP, NCCA recommend restoration of St. Anne parish church

MANILA, Philippines – The National Historical Commission of the Philippines (NHCP) and National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA) recommended the restoration of St. Anne...

Canada’s first outdoor neon sign museum lights up downtown Edmonton street

EDMONTON — Workers were taking a huge, glowing sign off a shuttered Edmonton furniture store as David Holdsworth walked by. When he was told the old...

Contemporary art show marks new direction for Crystal Bridges Museum in Wal Mart’s hometown

BENTONVILLE, Ark.—Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art opened in 2011 in Wal-Mart’s hometown, Bentonville, Arkansas, with a respectable collection of work by famous artists from Norman...

BenCab Museum – one of Asia’s best

MANILA, Philippines – TripAdvisor, a global website providing traveler reviews, has included BenCab Museum in the Top 25 Museums in Asia, 2014 Traveller’s Choice list. The...

Black artist from South Carolina uses images of Confederate flag to create haunting works

ORANGEBURG, S.C.—Leo Twiggs paints shadowy Confederate flags and faceless men with bulls-eyes on their backs, just a few of the haunting images he’s developed living as...

3 win Nobel for giving microscope sharper vision

STOCKHOLM — Americans Eric Betzig and William Moerner and German scientist Stefan Hell won the Nobel Prize in chemistry on Wednesday for developing new methods that...

London exhibit explores centuries of gothic thrills, from ‘Dracula’ to Alexander McQueen

$25,000 RBC painting prize goes to Tiziana La Melia of Vancouver

MONTREAL—Tiziana La Melia of Vancouver has won this year’s RBC Canadian Painting Competition, which recognizes artists in the early stages of their careers. She took the...

Philippines seizes 15 paintings from Marcos family, part of alleged ill-gotten wealth

MANILA, Philippines—The Philippine government has seized 15 paintings from the former home of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, part of efforts to recover 156 artworks—including ones by Van Gogh, Monet...

One more historic Manila structure bites the dust

What structure survived World War II, but succumbed to the Estrada administration, and to rampant greed and commercialism?  The answer is the Admiral Hotel on Roxas...