Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
For his work in Artists of Hawai‘i 2009, Stephen Niles drew one of New York artist Rirkrit Tiravanija’s cook-for-you installations in the David Zwirner Gallery. Tiravanija made his name in the mid-1990s with these events, and Niles, who lived in New York at the time, recently rendered one of them in pastels. On his blog, [...]
Dustin Lance Black, left, took the Oscar for best original screenplay for “Milk.” Now he drops into paradise for the 20th Honolulu Rainbow Film Festival at Doris Duke Theatre. Talk about star power. The great lineup of films takes you from a Honolulu beauty salon (Kevyn Fong’s “Beauty Brawl“—”oh shit, oh shit…BEAUTY BRAWL!”) to a [...]
Last night’s members’ opening of Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 was a fabulous climax to two years of work. In a stroke of luck former European and American Art Curator Michael Rooks, who initiated the cool changes to the now-biannual exhibition, was in from New York, mingling with his successor Theresa Papanikolas and special projects assistant [...]
Today artists Lian Lederman, left, and Ryan Lee were in Gallery 28 installing their work in “Artists of Hawai’i 2009.” (The members-only opening is May 13, 6-8pm; the show opens to the public May 14.) They were separated by a wall, but their pieces definitely have a dialogue going on.
Lian is fashioning the leftovers of [...]
I just spent four days at the American Association of Museum’s annual conference in Philadelphia. It’s a chance to exchange ideas with peers from museums across the country. I chaired a panel session on rebranding. I gathered the branding experts Mark Minelli of Minelli Inc. in Boston, Beth Tuttle of Met Strategies in Alexandria, LeAnne [...]