Entries tagged 'museums'
Army Museum Hawaii: Small, Interesting, In Waikiki
I'm back with another Microsoft Mobile post, coming at you from Fort DeRussy in Waikiki. When you see the Microsoft Mobile logo, you know I'm posting on the go. I am actually posting from a coffee shop right next...
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...
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: 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...
Inside the Academy: Bhutanese Art Arrives
The Bhutanese Buddhist works that will be in The Honolulu Academy of Arts’ “The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan,” opening Feb. 26, arrived on Friday. Three Bhutanese monks—Norbu Tshering, Sonam Tshering and Sonam Tshering (yes, they have the...
Inside the Academy: Everything Ossipoff
A whole crew of Ossipoff enthusiasts turned out for the opening of The Honolulu Academy of Arts' "Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of Vladimir Ossipoff" on Nov. 28. Ossipoff collaborator Sid Snyder, Ossipoff family members, Ossipoff home owners Linus Pauling, Jr....
Hawaii Museums: Hulihee Palace on the Big Island
Update: Hulihee Palace suffered considerable damage in the 2006 Earthquake centered off the Big Island. Tours of the palace are offered on a limited basis due to this damage and reconstruction work may be underway in the near future. This...
Pacific Aviation Museum Opens Dec. 7
After years in the making, the Pacific Aviation Museum opens its doors in two weeks. The museum will be chock full of goodies for history and World War II bufffs. If you like the National Air and Space Museum in...
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....
Luce Wing: Hawaiiana Art Superlative
The second floor gallery of the Henry R. Luce Wing in the Luce Pavillion Complex houses a collection of works which represent a pictorial record of Hawai'i, created by the finest artists who have worked in the state, from...
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...
