Up until last year, if you went to the second-floor gallery of American art, you’d find a celestial scene with...
2012
Reinstallation of galleries 5 + 6+
You got to follow the reinstallation of Gallery 4, which became the portraiture gallery (here’s a “during” shot). Now closed...
New jewelry in the museum shop+
Metalsmith Kirsten Lora makes whimsical jewelry out of oxydized sterling silver and handpainted plastic miniature figures. The museum shop just...
The rise of the guava saplings+
Last week visiting artist Patrick Dougherty and his crew—Hawai‘i artist Leland Miyano, museum staff, volunteers—harvested a forest’s worth of invasive...
Hawai‘i Art Now members-only opening tonight+
The first concrete sign of Hawai‘i Art Now was Eli Baxter installing her work Ascension on the staircase leading to...
Doodle4Google stations at Spalding House + School+
It’s time to Doodle 4 Google! The theme this year is “If I could travel in time…” and we are...
Visitors become impromptu art assistants on vacay+
The stripping of the strawberry guava saplings started on our front lawn today. Sherwood and Gerry Gwan, pictured here, are...
The great guava harvest of 2012+
Today Patrick Dougherty started work on his installation at the museum—this meant harvesting tons of strawberry guava saplings from Ho‘omaluhia...
Better view of Thomas Wilfred’s ‘Opus 160′+
Wow! Eugene Epstein, the subject of my previous post, forwarded the blog link to his nephew AJ Epstein. And he...
The Museum’s rare Lumia+
Last spring, boy was I excited to get a call from a New Yorker fact checker. She wanted to know...