Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
Now on view in the Henry Luce Gallery is “Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan, The Terry Welch Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.” The paintings in the show are transporting, and adding another dimension to them are the inscriptions, or poems, written in calligraphy. Exhibition curator Michiyo Morioka and Academy Curator [...]
We’re ahead of schedule! Decades of Abstraction: From the Collection of the Honolulu Academy of Arts is now open to the public. Come by and check out some fantastic Abstract Expressionist paintings and sculptures, such as Robert Rauschenberg’s 1962 combine “Trophy V (for Jasper Johns)” pictured here. All these objects haven’t been on view in [...]
Film Curator Gina Caruso works her patootie off to keep the Doris Duke Theatre film program in the same loop as any other top art house in the country. Proof: Back in May her Friends of Film Friday cinema program screened “Obscene,” a riveting documentary about publishing maverick Barney Rosset (that’s him pictured in 1967). [...]
Last night was the opening of “‘Ili Iho: The Surface Within” at Bishop Museum. Curated by Maile Andrade, the exhibition invited eight Hawaiian artists to explore four ancestral treasures—a feathered cape, a makaloa mat, kapa and a protest quilt—through their own work. As this blog has mentioned before, many Academy employees are talented artists and [...]
“The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan” opened to the public to much fanfare and excitement on Sept. 19 at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. A pre-opening gala dinner hosted by Donald and Shelley Rubin, founders of the Rubin Museum, included representatives from the Honolulu Academy of Arts, notably Director [...]
Eight months and counting for Artists of Hawai’i 2009. I’m personally excited to work with this year’s juror, Laura Hoptman, Senior Curator at the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. As one of the leading curators of contemporary art, Hoptman promises to share a singular perspective on the work of artistsin Hawai’i.
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The members’ opening for Literati Modern: Bunjinga From Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan went off beautifully. The Academy tried something new, starting the event at 5pm with a brief tour led by exhibition curator Michiyo Morioka. It was a hit, people flowed through the Luce Pavilion into the gallery to hear Michiyo speak so eloquently about [...]
Last Sunday’s episode of “Mad Men,” that moody chronicler of the 1961 Zeitgeist, covered the launch of Pampers (”At 10 cents a pop you’d expect to be able to use it more than once.”), where the term “cuppa Joe” came from (the founder of Martinson’s Coffee), and Abstract Expressionism. Advertising honcho Bertram Cooper has acquired a [...]
On Sept. 5 the Art Center at Linekona opened its textile exhibition—one of 27 happening in the city to coincide with the Textile Society of America Symposium. (Six of the exhibitions are at the Honolulu Academy of Arts!) Guest curator Mary Babcock (pictured below, right) of the University of Hawai‘i and Art Center Curator Carol [...]
The museum is all abuzz putting the finishing touches on “Literati Modern: Bunjinga From Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan, The Terry Welch Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts,” opening to members tomorrow and to the public on Thursday. I had the honor of walking through a bit of the stunning exhibition with Mr. Welch and [...]