Posted on 05/13/2022 2:53:29 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ju$t another elite enjoying the fruit of her $tatu$ much like our own DC $wamp.
Millionaire communist Picasso looked upon art as a business and he was very successful
Tourism actually expanded a lot since the 1990s. It was turning into a considerable business pre-Covid. The hot spots were beach resorts, scuba diving lications (El Nido), surfing, etc. It had gotten to @15% of Thailand.
That is very, very stupid and ignorant of you.
Most Filipinos were always lowland rice farming peasants with an overbearing native aristocracy. It was a feudal culture. No headhunting or cannibalism even in pre-Colonial days. And when the Spanish came they were extremely Catholic for the next 450 years.
The pagan hill tribes largely remained pagan and tribal. These guys did the head hunting. There were never many of these tribal people. The highlands couldnt support many people.
As far as I know there never were cannibals anywhere in the Philippines.
Why the Phillipines? He already runs the West Wing, so it seems.
I thought she was long dead. Who knew?!
I remember the 1986 elections in the Philippines (in which Marcos cheated his a$$ off) - he had gangs of thugs going around breaking up opposition rallies and all the thugs wore black t-shirts that said “Vote Intelligently”. He was a real bad guy, but you have to admit that’s funny in a dark sort of way.
Good for them. That’s being resourceful. If they are de-masking as we are in America, the economy will recover within about 18 months.
You fool! You have the internet at your fingertips, and you resort to spouting your fantasies. Do a little googling, idiot.
Internet?
I was born there and have a library on Philippine history.
I call you out as a fool. And possibly a drunkard.
She is very old. And she is supposedly pretty much out of it from dementia these days, but she hangs on. As the old Spanish dicho has it, “bicho malo nunca muere” - bad critters never die.
Amazing. Who even knew she was still alive.
It was the Manila International Film Festival venue that collapsed, in 1981.
It was built near the Cultural Center (where I have been many times, once to hear Andres Segovia). Its in the same reclamation project on Manila Bay.
It came close with Duterte . . . . . before he went off the tracks.
How do they know it’s not a replica?
That’s the truth.
Just saw this ping.
I love abstraction, but this seems facile and not one of Picasso’s best works.
Interesting story. So it was stolen, then hidden and now out in the open again.
Hmmmm.
Philippine politics is monolithic. King of the mountain. No room for opposition. Pure power Remember Ninoy!!
Ah, born there. Bias much?
Again, do a little research if you want to crush your fantasy world.
I guess a fake Picasso wasn’t good enough, and I’m sure there are artists out there they could reproduce anything of a scale that Picasso did almost exactly - and not nefariously but just to decorate a wall someplace like hers.
Wow...
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