Culture Vultures
In an era full of aspiring, soi-disant collectors, it can be startling to encounter the real thing. At a dinner last September in Singapore, to honor Filipino husband-wife artist-duo Alfredo and Isabel Aquilizan, I found myself sitting across from an elegant, colorfully dressed woman and her very understated husband. After introducing myself, my dinner companion proudly declared that she knew , and noted that an article on celebrated Japanese new-media collective teamLab in the 2017 September/October issue had featured many of their own works by the group. At that moment something clicked, and I realized that I had been seated with Maria Clara and Jose Isidro “Lito” Camacho—the couple who own not only six major digital works by teamLab
