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metmuseum.ph. The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, also branded as the M, is a non-profit art museum located in Bonifacio Global City (BGC) in Taguig, that exhibits local and international contemporary art. [1] It bills itself as the Philippines' premier museum for modern and contemporary visual arts by local and international artists.
The Commercial Bank and Trust Company (Comtrust) Building as its name suggest was initially hold office for commercial banking firm Comtrust shortly after it was built in 1969. In 1981, Comtrust would merge with the Bank of the Philippine Islands (BPI) and consequentially BPI became the building's new tenant.
The university was founded in 1925 by the first registered Filipino architect, Tomás Mapúa, a graduate of Cornell University in New York, US. In 2000, the university was acquired by the Yuchengco Group of Companies. The university's main campus is located in the historic Intramuros district of Manila, with a satellite campus located in Makati.
Alfonso Tiaoqui Yuchengco (simplified Chinese: 杨应琳; traditional Chinese: 楊應琳; pinyin: Yáng Yìng-lín; Pe̍h-ōe-jī: Iûⁿ Èng-lîm; February 6, 1923 – April 15, 2017) was a Filipino accountant, banker, businessmanpanies, one of the largest family-owned conglomerates in the Philippines. n one of the country's largest ...
The economic theory of museums is a field of cultural economics that focuses on the economic functioning of museums. More specifically, the economic theory of museums mainly analyzes museum activity within two frameworks. [1] Firstly, a museum can be considered as an economic unit (like a business), viewed from the angle of the relationship ...
Marian Pastor Roces is an art critic and curator based in Manila. Roces started writing art criticism in 1974 and since then she has penned numerous articles about traditional arts, museology, cultural theory, and politics. Her most recent book Gathering: Political Writing on Art and Culture[1] (2019) is an anthology of her writings since the ...
Antonio's Maiden with Flowers, oil on canvas, 2000. Marcel Antonio (born June 28, 1965) is a Filipino painter.Considered one of the most promising young talents in Philippine contemporary art while still attending the University of the Philippines' College of Fine Arts in the late 1980s, he launched a solo show and thereafter dropped out of the college to continue to produce collections of his ...
The University Museum is a pet project of Don Jaime Hernandez, the founder of the University of Nueva Caceres. It started on October 1, 1952, having as one of its primary aims to collect objects of interests in the arts and sciences. The UNC is the second educational institution in the Philippines to have a museum. Curators of the UNC Museum.