The kids enrolled in the Academy Art Center at Linekona’s Exploring Art of Furlough Fridays classes (so popular we had...
2009
Estria + Prime painting at Academy 12/19+
The Academy is honored that Estria and Prime will paint a freezer container at the Academy Art Center at Linekona...
Harajuku in Hokusai’s day (+ aloHAA goes bilingual!)+
Tokyo’s Harajuku district is the place to see the latest street fashions on the city’s hipsters. It’s a crowded urban...
Why Hokusai’s got the blues+
Katsushika Hokusai used a lot of blue dye in his “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” prints. Honolulu Academy of Arts...
A different spin on process painting…+
“Document your work!” Something art instructors preach to students from the very beginning. For some reason though, it seems to...
‘The Lost Symbol’ at the Academy in January+
A fan of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster—an exploration into the mysteries of Freemasonry? (As Maureen Dowd wrote in The New...
Talented staff: Aaron Padilla in ‘Degrees of Distinction’ @ UH+
There’s little over a week left to see “Degrees of Distinction,” an exhibition of alumni work at the University of...
Can’t stop going in Gallery 27+
Staff are abuzz about Curator Theresa Papanikolas’ and Installation Designer Larry Maruya’s reinstallation of the Clare Boothe Luce Gallery (aka...
Mirror image? Hokusai’s idealized Mount Fuji+
At first glance, Katushika Hokusai’s woodblock print “Reflection in Lake Misaka in Kai Province,” part of the series “Thirty-six Views...
Stephen Little on ‘The Great Wave’+
The undisputed star—or at least most recognizable work—in the exhibition “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” is the venerated...