Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
We posted the prospectus for Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 last week and hits to the website have skyrocketed. Although the juried exhibition, one of the oldest in the nation, doesn’t take place for nine months, the intense, mammoth planning and coordination that goes into an exhibition like this means that Rui Sasaki is already hard [...]
Today is the last day of “One Way or Another: Asian American Art Now.” I know I’ll take a last lingering look at the work, especially site specific installations such as Jean Shin’s “Unraveling” and Geraldine Lau’s multicolored maps of the Big Island that make you think of Hawai‘i’s sociopolitical history, and are also really [...]
Fireworks were the highlight of the opening of the Beijing Olympics. More creative than the usual saturns and smiley faces of our July 4 pyrotechnics, the Beijing bursts were the work of superstar artist Cai Guo Qiang, whose installation “Wako: Japanese Pirates in the Middle Ages” is on view right now in Shu: Reinventing the [...]