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  • The Chapel in the Six Circuits of Hell

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    In his Kapilya installation for Art Fair Philippines, Max Balatbat assembles a language that looks gritty and sincere. The centerpiece is a makeshift chapel of salvaged wood and rusted rebar. This is supposed to represent the look of faith forged from marginal lives that the art writer Carla Gamalinda has compared to the one studied…

  • The Myth of a Degree Zero Moment

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    Degree Zero at MoMA provides counterpoints to the understanding of drawing’s role in post-war art. Gathering 75 works, made between 1948 and 1966, from Louise Bourgeois, Yayoi Kusama, Henri Matisse, Jackson Pollock, Alfredo Volpi, and many others, as well as recent acquisitions by artists such as Uche Okeke, the exhibition freshly examines the commonly perceived…