http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:46:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en 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 ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1536 If you hadn't noticed, there is a new Artist in Residence in Gallery 31 Art Studio. Her name is Boz Schurr. What is she doing you ask? Well, for now I'll let the work speak for itself. With the help from Academy visitors, Boz will be on site, ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1527 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 ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1508     The Art Studio is again dark (for just one weekend) as Allison Uttley has packed up her work and moved back to the University.  As hoped, Uttley's time here has garnered her some vision and clarity on future work.  Keep an eye on this artist, she's on the cusp of ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1501 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 ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1493 In school, I had a professor use the term "Art Gap" a lot during critiques. Not sure if the term was of his own personal art vernacular (Google turned up nothing) as it was the last I ever heard anyone use it in a sentence. Art gap refers (so this ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1476 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 ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1460 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 ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1455 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.Here's the scoop on the painting, from a 2008 article by former Academy Curator of European and American Art Michael Rooks: The ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1444 "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 ... http://www.honoluluacademy.org/blog/?p=1425