Art Plus Magazine

30/05/2026

For Lydia Velasco, strength and femininity are inseparable. Across decades of painting, she portrayed Filipina women with commanding presence, grace, and resilience—qualities shaped by her own journey as a pioneering artist in a male-dominated field. Through her signature figures and unwavering spirit, Velasco’s work reveals a vision of womanhood that is powerful, empathetic, and deeply human.

This issue also features Indonesian artist Irfan Hendrian’s layered reflections on identity and memory, Max Balatbat’s devotional stories from the streets of Caloocan, and a look at how John Frank Sabado and Leonardo Aguinaldo bring Cordillera narratives into contemporary art, alongside other compelling stories from across the region.

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29/05/2026

At Ysobel Art Gallery, folded textiles, fractured surfaces, and embroidered interruptions converge as five female artists reimagine domestic objects and feminine tropes through a diverse art pieces shaped by memory, instability, and emotional residue.

Through restraint, rupture, stitching, and concealment, the exhibition titled “Each, Unfolding” transforms ordinary materials into meditations on fragility, labor, perception, and preservation—positioning domesticity not as passive sentiment, but as a critical and open-ended feminist language.

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Words by Philip Paraan
Photos courtesy of Ysobel Art Gallery

29/05/2026

Not Dead, Just Different reflects on how artificial intelligence is reshaping creative practice, where speed, efficiency, and imitation increasingly blur the boundaries of original thought and artistic process.

Through conversations with creatives, it explores how writing and storytelling continue to carry human weight amid systems that prioritize output, and why imperfection remains essential to meaning.

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Words by Jaymar Aquino
Art by Lili Zuñiga

29/05/2026

Are you ready to love again?

Madison Beer’s Locket Deluxe is officially here, and it’s more than just an album—it’s a compilation of messy, beautiful archives for every “lovergirl” who loves a little too hard. From the haunting nostalgia of the past to finding a love that finally lets you breathe, Madison turns her private diary into a pop masterpiece.

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Words by Mariel Ann Breanna Puli
Photo courtesy of Madison Beer

With the deluxe edition of Locket, and a cinematic video for Lovergirl , Madison Beer explores the courage it takes to leave the past behind and embrace a love that sets you free.

29/05/2026

In Master Class, performance stops being “content” and starts feeling like a beautiful, exhausting act of self-destruction.

Menchu Lauchengco-Yulo’s Maria Callas doesn’t chase relatability, branding, or curated authenticity—she demands blood, nerves, ego, heartbreak.

Opera, after all, understood long before the algorithm did that visibility always comes with a price tag.

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Words by Bernadette Soriano
Photos courtesy of Myra Ho

28/05/2026

Cover reveal on Saturday, May 30, 6:00 p.m.

28/05/2026

Someone say ✨ weekend gala ideas? ✨ Art+ Around the Corner has got you covered!

We’ve rounded up some of the coolest events happening around the corner this week:

🗓️ May 06 to 31
📌 OMOCHA: JAPANESE TOYS TODAY () AT METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF MANILA ()

🗓️ May 16 to 31
📌 A DANCE IN A DAY IN A DANCE BY MARI DANCE () AT DOREEN BLACK BOX THEATER ()

🗓️ May 20 to 30
📌 HAPPY ANDRADA () X SANSÓ: ART MEETS FASHION AT FUNDACION SANSÓ ()

🗓️ May 28 to 31
📌 SCRATCH BURGER (.mnl), NOLITA JOE’S (), AND BIG MAMA HOF () COLLABORATION AT POBLACION

🗓️ May 29 to 31
📌 KOMIKET MAKATI () AT AYALA MALLS CIRCUIT ()
📌 SUMMER LOVIN’ FLEA MARKET BY MADE VINTAGE CLUB () AT BURGOS PARK ()

🗓️ May 30 to June 17
📌 LAKBAY BY MARTE GOYON () AT ART VERITÉ GALLERY ()

🗓️ June 05 to 07
📌 SARI-SARI: A FLEA MARKET () BY BANGKETA (.co) AT SITIO KAHEL ()

See you!!

28/05/2026

From Edo-era charms to Wi-Fi Tamagotchis, “OMOCHA: Japanese Toys Today” turns play into cultural history.

Now showing at the Met Museum Manila, the exhibition explores how toys became vessels of memory, technology, storytelling, and wonder across generations.

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Words by Randolf Maala-Resueño
Photo courtesy of Metropolitan Museum of Manila

From Edo-era talismans to Wi-Fi Tamagotchis, OMOCHA: Japanese Toys Today traces how Japanese toys evolved into cultural artifacts shaped by memory, technology, and collective imagination

27/05/2026

ART+ asks Happy Andrada about translating the layered worlds of Juvenal Sansó into wearable art, and why continuing the maestro’s legacy through fashion and local craftsmanship felt deeply personal to the designer.

From vibrant florals to hypnotic abstractions, the collection transforms Sansó’s iconic works into sculptural contemporary Filipiniana rich in texture, movement, and emotion.

Video by Mian Centeno (.i4n_) and Gerie Marie Consolacion ()
Edited by Lili Zuñiga ()

26/05/2026

Estudio Damgo reimagines architecture education through immersive, community-centered design-build projects with underserved communities across the Negros region.

Led by architect Vanessa Gaston under Foundation University, the studio combines local materials, grassroots consultation, and hands-on construction to create spaces that support conservation, education, ecotourism, and community development.

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Words by Jewel Chuaunsu
Photos courtesy of Estudio Damgo