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Baguio artists’ battle cry: Give us our due, treat us with respect
Angelo Aurelio's Ibagiw mural of 2020 serves as backdrop of city officials taking part in a Mambunong ritual for an opening of an event led by the Department of Agriculture. —PHOTOS COURTESY OF THE ARTISTS
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December 5, 2025February 19, 2026Visual Arts

Baguio artists’ battle cry: Give us our due, treat us with respect

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BAGUIO CITY—This is no tempest in a teapot, this hue and cry over the destruction of the Ibagiw mural of visual and performance artist Angelo Aurelio without notice to him and upon the instructions of a tourism official in charge of the yearly arts and culture festival. (“Ibagiw” is an Ibaloi term to mean “someone...