Honolulu Academy of Arts Blog
The Art Studio is again dark (for just one weekend) as Allison Uttley has packed up her work and moved back to the University. As hoped, Uttley’s time here has garnered her some vision and clarity on future work. Keep an eye on this artist, she’s on the cusp of big things.
She left the [...]
A cache of costume jewelry from Rajasthan will be at the World Art Bazaar. You’ll find earrings and earrings-and-necklace sets that make stunning statements for a pittance. This decolletage dazzler looks like a million, but will set you back only $59. The luxe brocade silk scarf, also from India, is available in The Academy Shop [...]
In school, I had a professor use the term “Art Gap” a lot during critiques. Not sure if the term was of his own personal art vernacular (Google turned up nothing) as it was the last I ever heard anyone use it in a sentence. Art gap refers (so this professor proclaimed) to the distance [...]
When Maika’i Tubbs isn’t organizing Bank of Hawai’i Family Sunday, he is creating some of the most exciting art in the islands. He was in the Bishop Museum exhibition “‘Ili Iho: The Surface Within” last fall, and has three works in the current “Hi’iakaikapoliopele: Visual Stories by Contemporary Native Hawaiian Artists” at the Maui Arts [...]
In the exhibition “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” is a section of very rare early works by Hokusai, including these two portraits of Kabuki actors. Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art, fills us in Hokusai and Kabuki.
This is the second in a series of podcasts about works in “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of [...]
In honor of Saint Damien’s canonization, the Department of European and American Art has hung the Academy’s portrait of Joseph Damien de Veuster—Saint Damien since last Saturday—in the Holt Gallery.
“Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” has been incredibly gratifying for Academy staff. Putting the exhibition together was a big team effort, and the curatorial departments—Asian Art, Education and European and American Art—collaborated and tried new things. But best of all, it’s a show that is completely from the permanent collection. We don’t need [...]
In six weeks you can see the booty Academy Shop Manager Kathee Hoover acquired during her annual month-long summer buying trip for the World Art Bazaar. As usual her keen eye picked out a souk-full of available-nowhere-else-in-Hawai’i items, from Indian costume jewelry fit for a Bollywood production to Zuni fetishes—tiny carvings of semiprecious stones by [...]
Yesterday, I popped in to see what Allison was up to. There were more balloons, the shapes and scale of them have gotten more diverse. A few touch both floor and ceiling simultaneously, which begins to toy with your sense of proportion. One balloon caught my eye.
“Hey, it’s Penelope!” I said.
“Who’s Penelope?” asked Allison.
“You know [...]
For Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, two of the most interesting works in the current exhibition “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” are not by Hokusai. Find out why he’s so intrigued by Tomioka Tessai’s two fan paintings in this podcast.
This is the first in a series [...]