The Chabet Archive, a landmark research that compiled and digitized thousands of works and materials by Roberto Chabet, the country’s foremost conceptual artists and prime mover in Philippine contemporary art, is now open to the public.

Gathered by Ringo Bonoan, the Philippine researcher for Hong Kong’s Asia Art Archive, the collection is composed of a biography, profiles and interviews of him, letters, exhibition notes, sketches, press releases he had written, photographs of him and his exhibitions, information on the shows he curated, his works in private and public collections, press clippings, videos, posters, and invites.

Analog Soul T-shirt design contest winners (L-R)) Jeffrey dela Cruz and Ronnie Amador with their winning entries

In Analog Soul’s recent T-shirt design contest, “Do You Have an Analog Soul?” two artists stood out for their creativity and individualism.

The retail apparel and accessories store called out for entries in March, offering a cash prize for the winning design and the chance to be featured in an Analog Soul shirt.

Two new paintings by Elmer Borlongan will be auctioned for charity before they are displayed in September at the Biennale of Chianciano in Tuscany, Italy. Organized by the Museum …

Anyone who has ever come across new media art knows there’s no way for you to describe it if you haven’t experienced it.

ASEUM, an international new media art festival that kicks off this week in the Philippines, hopes to change that and to expose the regular Pinoy–whose idea of the arts could be limited to paintings, sculpture, and theater–to a different kind of art form derived from technologies such as the computer.

Hong Kong’s Asia Art Archive and the Lopez Memorial Museum are presenting The Chabet Archive on July 28, 4 p.m. The project focuses on the work of Robert Chabet, a pioneer conceptual artist in the Philippines and a key figure in Philippine contemporary art.

Initiated by AAP researcher Ringo Bunoan in 2008, the Chabet Archive documents the artist’s work and contributions to the local art scene through unpublished photographs, notes, sketches, letters, invitations, and press clippings from the 1960s to the present. Some of these were donated by Chabet himself; others secured through various institutions, galleries, collectors, and friends of the artist.

Manila Design Week 2009 gathers all graphic designers – local and international, established and up and coming – to celebrate the emerging graphic design scene in the country today. The first of its kind in the Philippines, it aims to bring Philippine Graphic Design into the mainstream. More than …