Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
On Sept 23, Director Stephen Little gave a tour of Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji for staff. From curators to docents, everyone got the inside info on the works in this exhibition. Here we’re looking at a very rare map of Mount Fuji, which was meant to be punched out and assembled as [...]
Today is Museum Day, organized by Smithsonian Magazine, and people have been taking advantage of their free passes. So far more than 250 people have come with their print outs. Thanks everyone! So much is going on—there are a lot of ways to be part of the art at the Academy these days.
This is Nelson, [...]
There’s something bittersweet about balloons—they serve as fluffy milestones, marking times of achievement and worth, yet they also remind you that those moments are just that, and can unexpectedly pop, deflate or just float away. We live for moments, and in art it is often the moment of completion that measures its worth. [...]
There have been great shows of Hawai‘i artists this year, such as The Contemporary Museum’s “20 Going on 21.” Now we have “Existential Pilgrims” at the Academy Art Center, which is getting raves, from people like Theresa Papanikolas, our Curator of European and American Art. So we’re biased, but the fact is that the Existential [...]
“It’s much worse now,” says George Ellis, director of the Honolulu Academy of Arts from 1982 to Feb. 1, 2003, about the difference between the financial situation for Hawai’i arts organizations now and the economic downturn following the attack on the World Trade Center on Sept. 11, 2001.
“It wasn’t a global situation, and it didn’t [...]
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What goes into an art loan? Joleen Oshiro reveals the backstory of the loan to the Senate Appropriation’s Office Conference Room. http://bit.ly/NIyFI