Marian Pastor Roces

Marian Pastor Roces is an art critic and curator based in Manila. Roces started writing art criticism in 1974 and since then she has penned numerous articles about traditional arts, museology, cultural theory, and politics. Her most recent book ''Gathering: Political Writing on Art and Culture'' (2019) is an anthology of her writings since the 1970s. Starting with her articles penned in the era of Ferdinand Marcos, "Roces has argued that art, culture, and politics are inseparable."

Roces acted as the director and curator of several museums, including Museo Ng Kalinangang Pilipino (Museum of Philippine Humanities), Museum of a History of Ideas at University of the Philippines, Yuchengco Museum, Museo Marino, and Museum of Contemporary Art and Design in Manila, among others. In the 1990s, she worked to create a global inventory of cultural heritage artefacts of the Philippines, which are in private and museum collections outside of the Philippines. Provided by Wikipedia