Entries tagged 'art'
Inside the Academy: Asian Sensation
Hey, Lesa Griffith from the Honolulu Academy of Arts checking in. You haven't seen an Academy post in a while because, well, we started our own blog, aloHAA. Curators and other staffers documented the run-up to our big summer program,...
Four Seasons Wailea -- A Maui Hotel and Top Hawaii Art Gallery Rolled Into One
Curator Julie Cline has turned the Four Seasons in Wailea into perhaps the leading showspace for contemporary art in Maui and possibly in Hawaii overall. She has a beautiful whitewashed canvas. What's more, she regularly runs tours of the...
Surfer Magazine seeks out Bhutanese monks
>Surfer Magazine associate editor Jeff Mull is in town and yesterday he stopped at the Honolulu Academy of Arts to interview our resident Bhutanese monks, who have been learning how to surf thanks to Cynthia Derosier, author of The Surfer...
Inside the Academy: See the newly reinstalled American Gallery
Michael Rooks, the curator of European and American art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, is a hands-on kind of curator. He gets his gloved hands dirty alongside the museum's installation experts hanging paintings, moving sculptures and choosing colors. In...
Microsoft Mobile Post: Arts at Marks - Nuuanu Gallery
Posting from the Nuuanu Gallery at Marks Garage. This post is sponsored by Microsoft. When you see the Microsoft Mobile logo, you know I'm posting on the go. Or something like that. So, back to the subject matter at...
Inside the Academy: Get ready for Robot Tea Party
These five handsome men are the AV Club of Honolulu, an art collective that has been doing interactive performance art events since 2006. And three of them are part of the great staff at the Academy Art Center at Linekona....
Inside the Academy: Filmmaker Esther Robinson introduces her film about Warhol's Factory daze
Academy film curator Gina Caruso was having a hard time finding a Honolulu-based speaker to introduce Esther Robinson's documentary about her uncle — Danny Williams, sometime Andy Warhol boyfriend and unsung filmmaker — at Friends of Film Friday. Caruso took...
Inside the Academy: Security Guard Calvin Collins’ Fabulous Show
There is a joke at the Honolulu Academy of Arts that the security guards are the most interesting people on staff. And like all jokes, there’s a lot of truth to it. The men and women who make sure the...
Inside the Academy: Opening of 'The Dragon’s Gift' a royal event
class="right" />After five years of research and conservation (and two concentrated months of whirlwind construction, signmaking, writing, planning) the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ landmark exhibition The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan opened with a special weekend of members-only...
Inside the Academy: Prayer Flags Are Go!
In the run-up to the opening of The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan, an upcoming and highly anticipated exibition at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, staff—and visiting monk Sonam Tshering—put up a grove of Bhutanese prayer flags in...
Inside the Academy: FFF a hit
You recall we mentioned the recent launch of Film Friday by the Honolulu Academy? Well, flick fans and cognoscenti turned out for the launch of Friends of Film Friday at the Doris Duke Theatre in droves this past week. Honolulu...
Inside the Academy: Hawaii's Last Art House Theater, Friends of Film Friday
When Varsity Theater closed last year, that left Doris Duke Theatre as the last art house standing. Honolulu Academy of Arts film curator Gina Caruso (pictured here) is going full steam with innovative programming. On Feb. 8 she launches Friends...
Inside the Academy: Artists on Staff, Rising Talent
It's not just a museum -- it's a veritable art league farm team! Did you know that some of O'ahu's best up-and-coming young artists are on staff at the Honolulu Academy of Arts? On Nov. 25, Alan Konishi, who oversees...
'Rape of Europa' opens at Doris Duke Theatre Sunday
With the closing of the Varsity Theater, the Honolulu Academy of Arts’ Doris Duke Theatre is the lone art house in town, and film curator Gina Caruso is keeping it stocked with top-notch options. Opening Sunday is the acclaimed documentary...
Hawaii Shopping: Maui Hands, Gallery Supreme
Maui has long been a magnet for artists seeking sun, tranquility and sky high prices. Thankfully, Maui Hands helps these creative souls monetize their vision and handiwork. This company, which has galleries on Maui in Makawao, Paia, Kaanapali and Lahaina,...
Get Your Hands on Some Artsy Gifts at Lodestar Collective’s Final Gallery Show
Lodestar Collective—a beautiful Kailua gallery that has regularly showcased the works of six of Hawaii’s most promising young artists for the past year—will be hosting its final show this month before closing its doors to the public on December 31....
Moku Ola Hawaiian Art Gallery: Oahu's Newest Venue for Local Artists
Moku Ola Hawaiian Healing Center is known for its excellent lomilomi massage and Hawaiian spa treatments. Now, the healing center has expanded its offerings to include top local artist. The current collection includes the work of nine of Islands’ most...
Georgia O'Keefe in Hawaii: Bridges and Waterfalls
Georgia O'Keeffe came to Hawaii in the late 1930s to escape a nasty divorce resulting from the infidelity of her husband and longtime mentor, an affair that caused O'Keeffe to have a nervous breakdown. The Dole Pineapple corporation underwrote her...
Hawaii Museums: Dream of Speech at TCMH
Sculptor H.C. Westerman passed through the islands as a gunner serving aboard the USS Enterprise at Pearl Harbor during World War II. Noted collectors bought his early works during the post-war period, even though Westerman studiously avoided hot trends...
Won Ju Lim: In Many Things to Come
The Honolulu Academy of Arts selected South Korean artist Won Ju Lim for a commission. Lim is known for creating shapes and forms that she lights up with still or moving images. Not surprisingly, Lim chose to focus on Hawaii....
Hawaiian Tattoos Exhibit: Amazing Ink
Polynesian tattoos are something that has fascinated visitors to the Pacific Islands for centuries and the fascination continues today. The Honolulu Academy of Arts is running an exhibit of images of tattoo culture in Hawaii captured by Jacques Etienne Victoire...
Lodestar Gallery: Kailua Couture
Lodestar Collective--one of the most interesting galleries to spring from Kailua’s newly revitalized art scene--may just be the closest thing Hawaii has to a couture house (through November 11, anyway). The gallery is co-owned by six local artists--Carl F.K. Pao,...
Cool Shops: The Gallery at Hilton Waikoloa Village
I stumbled upon this gallery in the massive resort in Waikoloa on the Kona-Kohala Coast of the Big Island when I was visiting this past weekend. It's packed with art, some of it cheesy but a lot of it...
Museums: Overlooked Gem, the Madge Tennent Gallery
The highly stylized charcoal sketches and oil paintings of Madge Tennent are often compared to those of that other painter of Polynesia, Gaugin as well as those of Vincent Van Gogh. They are a bit clunkier and chunkier, to be...
