Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
In a couple of weeks Academy Registrar Pauline Sugino is accompanying the Academy’s van Gogh “Wheat Field” to Basel, Switzerland, for the exhibition “Between Earth and Heaven: The Landscapes of Vincent van Gogh” at the Kunstmuseum Basel. The museum has already lined up a long list of press to cover the uncrating of the painting. [...]
Academy Director Stephen Little believes that the Academy is a place where everyone can have a transforming experience. An interesting 10-week UH Outreach course that starts on March 30 could make your next Academy visit even more transformative. Instructor James Garrison is teaching “Phil 306: Philosophy of Art.” “The course will be a survey of [...]
The stats of this blog are endlessly fascinating. The stats page tells us what other websites have links to aloHAA, it tells us how many people visit the blog each day, it tells us which posts are the most popular. But most interesting is the list of terms people use to find the blog. Today [...]
Honolulu artist Russell Sunabe, who also shares his mana‘o as an art professor at KCC, will receive the John Young Award at the opening reception of Artists of Hawai‘i on May 13. In the show will be his painting “Instinct,” which you may have seen at other (non-juried) exhibitions around town. It’s a bold, vigorous [...]
We posted the artists accepted into Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 yesterday and got a new record for hits in a day: 256. Thanks Hawai‘i arts community! Use this blog as a place to share your thoughts on this 58-year-old juried exhibition—and anything else about art you’d like to discuss. Artists of Hawai‘i (here’s a shot [...]
Brian Malanaphy’s “Manana Street Tryptich”
One of the surprise selections of Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 is Harley Diven of Pahoa. She was still 15 when she submitted her works for consideration. She turned 16 in February. Here’s the segment Roger Mari of KHNL did on the budding photographer.
Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 juror Laura Hoptman selected 87 works by 63 artists from four islands. The result is a broad spectrum of artists, ranging widely in age (16 to 82) and media (painting to multimedia installation). Alongside established island artists such as Kaua‘i’s Sally French, Stephen Niles (a former assistant to artist Anselm Kiefer in France) [...]
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Thanks to everyone who showed-up at the last ARTafterDARK, “Mughal” on  February 27, we had a great turnout of participants (cameras in hand) for our final meet-up for Wikipedia Loves Art. About 22 teams showed up that night and more than a dozen more interested museum-goers stopped by to find out what was going on. (That’s [...]
You’ve probably seen the talented Aaron K Yoshino, aka Honozooloo, snapping away at one event or another—he recorded the special screening of “Planet B-Boy” at The Doris, with Benson Lee in the house, and generously shared his photos with us to publish in our membership magazine (thanks again Aaron!). But he’s not a party-picture hack. [...]