In 1970, 24-year-old Pacita Abad left her home in the Philippines, fleeing political persecution after leading a student protest against the Marcos regime. She was planning to study law in Spain.

Twenty years after the artist Pacita Abad’s death, in 2004, of cancer, at 58, her astonishing achievements are finally reaching a wide audience. A rip-roaring retrospective began at the Walker Art ...

Pacita Abad, "If My Friends Could See Me Now" (1991), acrylic, painted canvas, gold yarn on stitched and padded canvas (photo by Charles Roussel, courtesy Pacita Abad Art Estate and Tina Kim Gallery) ...

Google has swapped out its homepage logo with an incredibly colorful Doodle honoring Pacita Abad, an artist, activist, and feminist from the Philippines. On this day in 1984, Pacita Abad broke gender ...

The Cantor Arts Center and the Department of Special Collections at Stanford University Libraries today announced the acquisition of the Pacita Abad Archives. The vast collection of archival materials ...

The artist’s work is featured in a major retrospective at Walker Art Center in Minneapolis until Sept. 3. If you’ve ever visited Batanes, there’s a chance you’ve touched down at Fundacion Pacita, a ...

MINNEAPOLIS --Visitors to the Walker Art Center will soon experience a never-before seen exhibit highlighting the colorful work of a world-renowned artist. It's a first-of-it's-kind retrospective of ...

CC0 Usage Conditions ApplyClick for more information. The collection of audiovisual material relating to Pacita Abad measures 89.63 GB and dates from 1984 to 2008. All materials in this collection are ...

A gallery room in the Walker Art Center’s retrospective exhibition of Pacita Abad’s 32-year career features works from Abad’s “Bacongo” series, inspired by a region in Central Africa that now makes up ...

In recent years, there has been a significant resurgence of interest in women’s textile practices. No longer confined to the undervalued realm of craft, they are now finally being elevated to the ...

In the opening scene of Season 3, Episode 1 of Hulu’s “Only Murders in the Building,” an aging unknown Broadway hopeful played by Meryl Streep auditions for a play directed by Martin Short’s character ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Pacita Abad’s giant artworks have staged a friendly takeover of MoMA PS1 in New York. They’ve infiltrated the ...