Click "confirm" to purchase this lot. The present lot consists of a portfolio of 9 photogravures on overbeaten abaca paper by artist Kiki Smith and 15 pages of poetry by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge ...

The Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas (BSP) is going full steam ahead with its plan to saturate the country with polymer banknotes that it believes to be more durable, tamper-proof, and environment-friendly ...

Will the BSP reply that polymer banknotes last longer than abaca paper currency, one of their excuses? That has not been ...

Eastern Visayas recorded 2,938 metric tons (MT) of abaca fiber production in 2024, up by 24 percent from the actual yield a year earlier, the Philippine Fiber Industry Development Authority (PhilFIDA) ...

Campbell’s paper works, made from manila envelopes and rope during a fellowship at Dieu Donné, reference the Philippine abaca industry’s colonial ties. A video installation, “Makahiya,” explores ...

THE Department of Agriculture (DA) said on Sunday that it will seek to reverse a central bank decision halting the use of abaca fiber in Philippine banknotes. “We will request that the Bangko Sentral ...

Campbell’s paper works, made from manila envelopes and rope during a fellowship at Dieu Donné, reference the Philippine abaca industry’s colonial ties. A video installation, “Makahiya,” explores ...