Comments on: Abueva Retrospective at the Metropolitan Museum

By: bien aragon

bien aragon — Sat, 25 Jan 2014 02:25:17 +0000

I recommend the Abueva exhibit wholeheartedly , I just hope that those who come to see it will have a better experience than my wife and I had yesterday, Jan 24. We drove all the way from QC and got to the museum before noon, only to see a sign that there was a private function and the museum would be closed to the public from 11 am to 2 pm. My wife checked the museum website before we left and there was no announcement of the closure.

Anyway we accepted that and just killed time and returned at 2 pm. We were told that the function was still going on. Only after expressing our disgust were we allowed to enter and view the exhibits in the basement and second floors (the function was in a very small area of the first floor).

Whose whim or caprice was it to turn a public museum into a private dining hall? We were told that these were top BSP or MB officials discussing sensitive matters. If so, shouldn’t they use the more secure rooms in the BSP complex? I do know they have a lot of that since I attended meetings there before. This is just another example of how public officials treat their premises as private property and the public as dirt. It made us feel like the homeless people camped in the stinking alley beside the BSP compound.

By: MP

MP — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 05:01:18 +0000

Yehey, I can still catch the exhibit when I get back to Manila on the third week of Feb!

By: Marketman

Marketman — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 03:05:19 +0000

manny, yes, we must be distant relatives through the Veloso side of the family… Teddy was marvelous, and artistic in his own way. And few outside the family would know he dabbled in sculpture in his very early days as well… we are lucky to have one bronze nude of Tito Teddy’s that is quite beautiful.

By: manny

manny — Fri, 17 Jan 2014 02:59:08 +0000

wow! big fan here… and just super thrilled that we must be distant relations. tito billy is my dad’s second cousin. (my paternal lola who is vicenta veloso from cebu married jesus chaves from balingasag.) maybe you should also do a piece on his brother tito teddy who did floral settings while living in new york.

By: Marketman

Marketman — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 14:36:27 +0000

Ariel, :)

By: Ariel Nievera

Ariel Nievera — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 08:45:36 +0000

When I took some classes with him at UP in mid 70s, he commuted to school by horse and chariot

By: millet

millet — Wed, 15 Jan 2014 00:53:13 +0000

beautiful! here in davao, we have an almost permanent exhibit of abueva sculptures at the malagos gardens.

MM, totally unrelated to abueva, but lechon-related -i had a good laugh over this: https://9gag.com/gag/aD0nR8Z

By: Mrs Froggie

Mrs Froggie — Tue, 14 Jan 2014 06:45:23 +0000

I had the honor of being able to go to his home and see his art works in one of our field trips when I was a student in the University of the Philippines, Diliman. He truly is a very talented artist! So he is your uncle! Really, he is a treasure of our Philippine heritage to be proud of!

By: marilen

marilen — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 23:48:36 +0000

Thank you, MM for the great photos. Could not be there but this is the next best thing!!
Abueva is a national treasure!

By: natie

natie — Mon, 13 Jan 2014 21:31:58 +0000

Definitely well worth the price.. Cheap compared to the NY Museums–prohibitive, if there’s a group of you, and you have to PARK!!!!

With the Three Nudes, I did more than look AT THE grain of the wood..! (Oh, snap! No she diint)

You have the genius-gene, MM!!