The Art Studio is again dark (for just one weekend) as Allison Uttley has packed up her work...
October, 2009
Bridging the Balloon Gap+
In school, I had a professor use the term “Art Gap” a lot during critiques. Not sure if the term...
Talented staff: Maika‘i Tubbs in Hi’iaka show (just 4 more days!)+
When Maika’i Tubbs isn’t organizing Bank of Hawai’i Family Sunday, he is creating some of the most exciting art in...
Before Mount Fuji, there was Kabuki+
In the exhibition “Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” is a section of very rare early works by Hokusai,...
Saint Damien as a young, dashing priest+
In honor of Saint Damien’s canonization, the Department of European and American Art has hung the Academy’s portrait of Joseph...
Opening of Hokusai’s Summit+
“Hokusai’s Summit: Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” has been incredibly gratifying for Academy staff. Putting the exhibition together was a...
Puffy Pareidolia+
Yesterday, I popped in to see what Allison was up to. There were more balloons, the shapes and scale of...
Special ink: Tomioka Tessai’s fan paintings+
For Shawn Eichman, Curator of Asian Art at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, two of the most interesting works in...
Larger-than-life ikebana: This weekend only+
Trees à la Sogetsu opened today at the Academy Art Center at Linekona, and the museum has been buzzing with...