Miyano in his garden. Photo by Shuzo Uemoto, 2008.
Aloha I’m April Lee, the co-curator of one of the Academy’s “Asian Sensation” summer exhibitions, Leland Miyano: Historia Naturalia et Artificialia. Local sculptor, landscape designer, and botanist Leland Miyano is the recipient of the Academy’s 2008 Catharine E.B. Cox Award, which is granted biennially to former or [...]
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Along with “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now,” Asian Sensation! includes “Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art,” which was organized by the China Institute. The Academy just found out that the exhibition’s curator, Wu Hung, will come to Honolulu to give the lecture “Contemporary Chinese Art, the Artist, and the Book” on [...]
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In the run-up to Asian Sensation!—the Academy’s trifecta of summer exhibitions that open in June—the Honolulu Academy of Arts launches aloHAA, its first blog. The goal is to give you an inside look at the Academy—find out what curators are doing, keep abreast of upcoming exhibitions, and get insight directly from artists. We’ll also fill [...]
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