Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
Freelance writer Ray Pace has launched Honolulu Arts Beat, an e-zine that covers “music, entertainment and culture.” It has a big focus on visual arts too, and includes a piece on “Celebration,” the 25th anniversary exhibition of the Hawaii Quilt Guild now on view at the Academy Art Center at Linekona. Mahalo! (Disclosure: Ray Price [...]
In November I posted an item about the Academy having the honor of being named the recipient of 50 works from the Vogel Collection—arguably the finest collection of contemporary works on paper. This year, the Academy will receive works by Robert Barry, Don Hazlitt, Bill Jensen, Steve Keister, Mark Kostabi, Joel Perlman, David Reed, Judy Rifka, [...]
The Wikipedia Loves Art winner for the Honolulu Academy of Arts was announced this morning. Congratulations to Christopher Hu and Lisa Mandle who were the unbeatable team “Department of Trife!” They completed the hunt with 154 points total. Their prize packet includes Robert Frank’s “The Americans” photography book, 2 Friends of Film Friday memberships, and 4 [...]
“Whatevahs” by Lawrence Seward, who recently moved back to Hawai‘i from NYC with his wife, animator Laura Margulies, and two children. Now that the Flower Show is over, work on Artists of Hawai‘i is beginning. Invitations for the members-only opening on May 13 go out tomorrow. (It’s not too late to join if you’d like [...]
Click here to view HAA’s van Gogh media event on Swiss TV.
pictured l-r: Dr. Nina Zimmer (Curator 19th Century & Modern Art), Pauline,
Dr. Bernhard Mendes Bürgi (Director), Peter Berkes (Head Conservator)
Academy Registrar Pauline Sugino accompanied our van Gogh “Wheat Field” to Basel and its unveiling at the Kunstmuseum Basel was a media event. That’s her at the right-hand corner of the painting in this photo from Agence France Press.
Can you read Swiss German? Here are links to articles on the event.
Tages Anzeiger: Medienspektakel in Basel: Millionen-Van-Gogh [...]
Like most stars of the art world, van Gogh touched down at Zurich airport unannounced for security reasons. It was a warm spring afternoon. It took a while to clear customs and load the heavy crate into the special climate-controlled truck for the one-hour ride to Basel. “Switzerland is a small country,” our friendly driver [...]
Museum registrars need tons of patience and endurance for hours of travel and sheer waiting. To ship HAA’s van Gogh I spent a whole day waiting at airports and flying, just to get to Los Angeles, the first leg of our long journey. Then I spent the night and waited the entire next day for the 11-1/2 hour flight over Canada and [...]