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Art Broken
Each year, a carefully chosen committee scrutinizes lifelong brilliance, then, after a tortuous process, proclaims individuals worthy of being
Drawn Together: Unedited Interviews
What a rush! Rogue assembles 16 of the country’s top illustrators. Once treated with condescension by the visual arts world, their works—full of heart and runaway imagination—are now basking
Trese: Masquerade
Its pace, furious. Its wild plotting, teeming with references to Philippine mythology. Its story, filled with hidden depths. Welcome to detective Alexandra Trese’s world, where the absolute
Fly By Night
Armed with the spirit of inquiry, Nicola M. Sebastian grills night-owl photographer Frankie Callaghan about his partiality to photo shoots after nightfall. The latter initially explains that he
The Museum That Art Built
BenCab gripped the public with his visual stimuli and changed contemporary Philippine art forever. On the recent opening of his Baguio museum, Karla P. Delgado unravelled the enigma of the space and
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman
The Philippine art scene is moving at an exciting and frenetic pace. In this special Art Portfolio photographed by creative lensman Neal Oshima and written by insiders such as Karla P. Delgado,
Minding His Business
Paco, Manila-born Fernando Amorsolo’s soaring renown had aroused national pride as early as the 1920s, causing well-heeled Filipinos to seek his
The Rules of Art-traction
Collecting art can sometimes be an intimidating, even frightening, endeavor, especially for dilettantes and pretentious wannabes. But Rina Ortiz,
Beautiful Garbage
Because of the overabundance of garbage in the world, artist/environmentalist Ann Wizer decided to commit her art to trash. Collaborating with
Leaks
Frankie Callaghan and Enrico Subido bring their photographs and words to the Rogue table for a photo-essay entitled Leaks. Using Callaghan’s haunting series of urban landscapes—conceptualized
Little Fears
The introspective art of photographer Frankie Callaghan—with its quasi-mystical attention to color, geometry, and form—offers viewers immortalized glimpses of the sublime, which are easily
Terror is a Man
If there’s any living artist in the Philippines today that can provide shock value of such blasphemous proportions, it’s Jose Legaspi. His work has elicited a variety of reactions—from a few
The Nuclear Glamazon
Helena Carratalá (most of you might remember her by her former married name Guerrero) could very well be one of the most colorful and flamboyantly fabulous women ever to have graced the Philippine
