Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
The Star Bulletin named the Academy’s landmark exhibition “The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan” as one of the top 10 entertainment stories of 2008. Taking a cue from the newspaper, we looked back at the eventful year to come up with our own top 10 Academy stories.
Artist of Hawaii 2009 will close its virtual submission doors in 48 hours. Just to let you know, the Academy is closed New Years day. But don’t fret. If you have questions, leave me a message (532-8770, rsasaki@honoluluacademy.org) and I’ll get back to you Friday morning. Happy New Year everyone.
We continue our minitour of “Richard Lane and the Floating World,” now on view in Gallery 14 through Feb. 1. This time guest curator Scott Johnson turns his attention to tengu—half-human, half-crow beings. It’s a painting that draws you in as you watch the beaked creatures going about their business.
On view in Gallery 9 right now is Robert Frank’s “Charleston, South Carolina,” a print from his seminal series “The Americans,” which turned 50 this year. In 1955 and 1956, the Swiss-born Frank drove all over this land (well, the mainland) fueled by a Guggenheim fellowship. The end result was the 83 images in the [...]
Of the 50 or so artists generally chosen for Artists of Hawai’i, nine are picked to receive a special recognition award, one of which is the John Young Award, given by the John Young Foundation. It honors a Hawai‘i artist who has shown exceptional talent and inspired artistic vision in his or her work. In 2007 (when [...]
Since October 2008, the Academy has been reaching out to its online audience via social networking sites such as Facebook, Twitter, Myspace, YouTube and Flickr. The results have been phenomenal! Who knew that we had fans all the way in Thailand and Australia?
Not only have we gotten to know the faces of other web 2.0ers [...]
17 days left until the submission deadline for Artists of Hawaii 2009. I spent the morning looking through the entries and was greatly impressed by the breath and scope of the submissions to date. And judging from the number of phone calls I’m receiving, there are many of you who have yet to enter. Don’t [...]
Now at the Academy is the first glimpse of the Richard Lane Collection, which the Academy acquired in 2003. It’s a hoard of Japanese art and as a team of experts go through it, delightful discoveries are being made. Scott Johnson, professor at Kansai University in Osaka and a Japanese art-history scholar, curated this first exhibition of [...]
Flip Video just updated their program so that you can now splice videos together on Mac. Went through footage from when we first got our Flip Video and did a short pastiche of snippets from the “One Way or Another: Asian-American Art Now” exhibition, which was at the Academy June 18 to August 31. It [...]
James Foster was director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts from 1963 to 1982 and oversaw a sort of golden age of acquisition. In his prescient pursuit of contemporary works, Foster worked closely with Academy trustee Duane Preble, author of the seminal art history textbook “Artforms.” Here the two discuss one of their prizes, Robert [...]