Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
Not only is Honolulu Academy of Arts Director Stephen Little an authority on Chinese art and the author of books such as Taoism and the Arts of China—he paints too.His first solo show opens tonight at the Pegge Hopper Gallery in Chinatown.
He recently took at life drawing class at the Academy Art Center at Linekona, [...]
The day opened with a bang—students from The Pacific Buddhist Academy of Hawaii performed taiko drumming in Central Courtyard. The Bon Dance Club of Manoa and the Mo‘ili‘ili Senior Citizens Club did two sessions of bon dancing. There was so much to do—do shibori (Japanese tie-dye) with textile artist and Academy staffer Darius Homay, draw [...]
A cache of costume jewelry from Rajasthan will be at the World Art Bazaar. You’ll find earrings and earrings-and-necklace sets that make stunning statements for a pittance. This decolletage dazzler looks like a million, but will set you back only $59. The luxe brocade silk scarf, also from India, is available in The Academy Shop [...]
When Maika’i Tubbs isn’t organizing Bank of Hawai’i Family Sunday, he is creating some of the most exciting art in the islands. He was in the Bishop Museum exhibition “‘Ili Iho: The Surface Within” last fall, and has three works in the current “Hi’iakaikapoliopele: Visual Stories by Contemporary Native Hawaiian Artists” at the Maui Arts [...]
In the exhibition “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” is a section of very rare early works by Hokusai, including these two portraits of Kabuki actors. Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art, fills us in Hokusai and Kabuki.
This is the second in a series of podcasts about works in “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of [...]
In honor of Saint Damien’s canonization, the Department of European and American Art has hung the Academy’s portrait of Joseph Damien de Veuster—Saint Damien since last Saturday—in the Holt Gallery.
“Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” has been incredibly gratifying for Academy staff. Putting the exhibition together was a big team effort, and the curatorial departments—Asian Art, Education and European and American Art—collaborated and tried new things. But best of all, it’s a show that is completely from the permanent collection. We don’t need [...]
In six weeks you can see the booty Academy Shop Manager Kathee Hoover acquired during her annual month-long summer buying trip for the World Art Bazaar. As usual her keen eye picked out a souk-full of available-nowhere-else-in-Hawai’i items, from Indian costume jewelry fit for a Bollywood production to Zuni fetishes—tiny carvings of semiprecious stones by [...]
For Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, two of the most interesting works in the current exhibition “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” are not by Hokusai. Find out why he’s so intrigued by Tomioka Tessai’s two fan paintings in this podcast.
This is the first in a series [...]
Trees à la Sogetsu opened today at the Academy Art Center at Linekona, and the museum has been buzzing with excitement. “Have you seen the Sogetsu show yet?” everyone asked me. I went over and was blown away by the larger-than-life creations in the main gallery. Flame-red anthuriums arc into space on a scaffold of [...]