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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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31st December 2023

Dear friends and colleagues

Portraits? Is this a form of art that is now redundant? Do we need artist-made portraits in the age of the selfie, Instagram, and computer software capable of...

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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...

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11th April 2023

Five days in Singapore

Dear friends and colleagues

“Has the war made it difficult for you to obtain foreign research reports?” asked...

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4th April 2023

Four Days in Bagiuo

Dear friends and colleagues

I went once, ten years ago, but this visit was very different because we now know people...

7th March 2023

Dear friends and colleagues

You may remember that in my letter 163 (10th March 2020) I talked of how a group of nine of the most important Manila galleries had become dissatisfied with the art fair (Art Fair Philippines or AFP) and started their own fair (ALT). “Is the art market here big enough to justify...

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14th February 2023

Dear friends and colleagues

As I have grown older I find myself reading obituaries more often. Sadly, I find myself writing them today. Last year two artists of South-east Asia died with whom I had worked...