Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
You’ve probably heard by now but Hedwig is back at the Academy. Otto, The 86 List, and other talented musicians make this show a must see. I checked it out last night and was blown away by their spectacular perfomance. Otto, the man of many talents is, needless to say, awesome. And the other musicians and performers were [...]
Academy Shop Manager Kathee Hoover has acquired an alluring assortment of glass beads. Just try to resist the Ali Babaesque twinklers that will be at this year’s World Art Bazaar, such as the multistrands of light blue Indonesian glass beads ($39), West African green faceted-glass beads ($67.50), and red Czech glass beads from Nigeria ($24.50). [...]
Tonight at 7:30, Anna Biller presents “Viva,” her take on the sexploitation film, at Friends of Film Friday at the Doris Duke Theatre. Anna wrote, directed and designed the costumes and sets for what the New York Times calls “a startlingly pitch-perfect reproduction of the kind of gauzy sex movies from the 1960s and early [...]
The World Art Bazaar isn’t just cute tchotchkes. Check out this elegant crewel jacket from India. It took a woman, like, a year to complete the detailed stitchwork on supersoft wool. A bargain at $395. There are only two crewel-work jackets (both large), so come early. The Bazaar runs Nov. 29-Dec. 14; Tuesdays-Saturdays 10am-4:30pm, Sundays [...]
Last month “The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan” opened at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York. It’s the first time the museum is presenting an exhibition organized by another institution—in this case the Honolulu Academy of Arts—and Assistant Curator John Johnston reports that is a huge hit. Last week Johnston met [...]
Spice up your holidays with some global chic—jettison those tired old thermos-like balls from the drugstore and replace them with these dazzling papier mâché tree-enhancers from India. You’ll find them at the World Art Bazaar, Nov. 29 to Dec. 14 at the Art Center at Linekona. Information: 532-8700.
Just a little over a month until the World Art Bazaar opens its doors—for the 27th time. Each week we’ll give a sneak peek at items that you’ll find at the Bazaar, which runs Nov. 29 to Dec. 14 at the Art Center at Linekona. (Wait til you see the multistrand blue sapphire necklace from [...]
Former Academy Director Jim Foster, along with trustee and distinguished former University of Hawai’i art professor Duane Preble, visited the museum last month and gave up enticing tidbits about paintings that he acquired during his reign from 1963 to 1982, a sort of golden age of acquisition for the Academy. The Academy’s Monet, one of [...]
In the exhibition “Literati Modern: Bunjinga from Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century Japan, The Terry Welch Collection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts,” on view through Nov. 16, there is a painting of two regal cranes, and a diptych of a dog and her litter of puppies. Listen to collector Terry Welch, exhibition curator Michiyo Morioka and [...]