Blogging Miles Around the Metro

Long-running artist-run spaces are a rarity. Seldom will you find prolific artists who also adequately maintain their own galleries or restaurants. Unless blessed with a business partner (a real business-minded one, I might add) who understands and appreciates the idiosyncrasies of artists, and knows how to maximize these, our dear artists would more often than not find themselves burned out, and artistically unproductive.

Painter Rock Drilon has managed to keep not just one branch of the Mag:Net Gallery up and running these past few years, but he’s grown the chain to three branches in Metro Manila, with the branch along Katipunan Avenue in Quezon City serving as a book/magazine shop, cafe and performance space as well.

With a packed schedule of exhibits, performances and film showings (not five minutes away from my office door), you can expect to find more tales about this cozy haunt to come.

Vector map by Herb Fondevilla for Mag:Net.

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