For the inaugural Arts and Culture Issue, National Artist Benedicto “BenCab” Cabrera examines his legacy decades into an illustrious career and several Sabels later. And for the first time, a look at the masterpieces in the Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas collection, which includes works by Fernando Amorsolo, Victorio Edades, and Malang Santos. Filmmakers Lav Diaz, Roxlee, and Khavn De La Cruz, collectively known as The Brockas, discuss the absurd and political slant of their off-kilter musical act. Artist Kiri Dalena is a figure of defiance as she continues to bear witness and document, through art, the aftermath of the state-sponsored violence. Filipino-American rock icon June Millington looks back at the pioneering music of Fanny. Multidisciplinary artist Corinne De San Jose learns to sit still with silence. And 20 years later, does the Cinemalaya still stand for alternative and independent filmmaking that it proclaimed to champion as a film festival in 2005?