Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
In preparation for the annual World Art Bazaar held in November, Academy Shop Manager Kathee Hoover has started getting ready for her month-long buying trip. The bazaar is exactly what it sounds like—a sale of carefully selected antique and contemporary handcrafted items from around the globe. (Pictured are some of the cool items she scored [...]
This afternoon a branch broke off from one of the monkeypod trees on the front lawn and crashed into the windshield of a passing automobile. Thankfully neither the driver nor her granddaughter in the back seat were injured. She is an amazing driver to have kept her car under control. The police and KITV quickly [...]
Museums across the country, from the Metropolitan Museum of Art to the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, are delving into their permanent collections for exhibitions, rather than bringing in expensive productions. All museums are facing hard times, and mining the vaults saves money. It also is a great way for the public to see [...]
Just went to see the Charles Bartlett works in the Jhamandas Watumull Gallery. I love his prints and drawings—he’s like Beatrix Potter for grown ups. The works are just so damn charming, with their precise lines and seductive colors. Asian Art Curator Shawn Eichman’s juxtapositioning of the Englishman’s renderings of the Indian scenes with a [...]
Up until today, a large, two-piece sculpture sat on the Diamond Head end of the front lawn of the Honolulu Academy of Arts. The museum purchased the Jack Zajac bronze—”Ram’s Skull and Horn”—in 1976. Where’d it go?
Theresa Papanikolas, Curator of European and American art, has the scoop:
In a corner of Artists of Hawai‘i 2009 is a video installation by David J. Merritt. It’s a neverending loop from Jean-Pierre Melville’s 1967 New Wave classic “Le Samouraï,” in which a heartbreakingly young and handsome Alain Delon is sitting in a car methodically going through a ring of like 60 keys to see which [...]