ART ARC

Without a doubt, The Peninsula Manila has one of the most enviable art collections amassed by a hotel. That includes works by important Philippine artists like Jose Joya, BenCab, Mauro Malang Santos, Cesar Legaspi, and Larry Alcala, some of whose drawings were kept as “mementoes” by hotel guests.

The most visible of them all would have to be Napoleon Abueva’s tantalizing sculpture. Mounted on the hotel lobby’s high ceiling, it has become a defining feature of The