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26th November 2024 -15th December 2024

Dear Friends and colleagues

Having written this, I had second thoughts. I was uncertain whether I had made a regional difference sound like a qualitative difference. Maybe I had...

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19th November 2024

Dear friends and colleagues

I am very happy to tell you that I have just put another interview up on my website arttalksea.com, one with Mark Valenzuela. I realise that these interviews are getting longer: I...

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10th October 2024

Dear friends and colleagues

Firstly, many apologies for such a long silence. For some time words did not flow. Then I went the UK (and Venice). Then came the inevitable jet lag. (It gets worse as you get...

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9th July 2024

Dear friends and colleagues

Although painting dominates the galleries and the auction market it is in making installations that the particular genius of Filipino artists – and indeed artists from the Tropics...

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14th May 2024

Dear friends and colleagues

Firstly, may I say that I have just put interviews with Louie Cordero and Ian Woo on the website – arttalksea.com

Sarah...

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16th January 2024

When people are very young they see animals as equal, even as kin. That humans are different, unique and superior to all other species – this they have to be taught....

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30th November 2023

Dear friends and colleagues

On Tuesday after visiting Vargas Museum to meet with Buen Calubayan to discuss his show there and a future interview with him, and then Ateneo Art Gallery to see the Ateneo Art...

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24th October 2023

Dear friends and colleagues

As I said two weeks ago there were three outstanding exhibitions I had seen recently that I wanted to report on.

As if to...

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3rd October 2023

Dear friends and colleagues

It has been some time since we last talked. I must...

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2nd May 2023

Oca Villamiel, Potteries, at Finale

Dear friends and colleagues

How can we adapt our...