Spalding House curator Aaron Padilla was looking for a way to illustrate the idea of kinesis for the exhibition Inquiring...
Lesa Griffith
Museum celebrates Micronesia with exhibition, workshops and film+
To celebrate the arts and traditions of a growing part of Hawai‘i’s social fabric, the Honolulu Museum of Art School...
Making a statement: Allyn Bromley on her works ‘Green Piece’ and ‘Kaka‘ako’+
Artist Allyn Bromley holds up her hand to reveal a middle finger that curves to the right. Her work Green...
Critique Session: Experts review our European and American art galleries, Friday, Feb 28+
The Hawai‘i Museums Association is holding a critique session of our reinstalled European and American art galleries on Friday, Feb....
Korea ‘buried treasure’ discovered in the museum basement!+
Last month, three South Korean art history scholars visited the museum to inspect our collection of Korean art. What they...
See a 700-year-old golden masterpiece+
Now on view in Light from Shadown: Gold in Japanese Art is this delicate, rarely-put-on-view hanging scroll. Anonymous The Descent...
A five-year-old gave us her life savings in honor of her Uncle Tim’s birthday+
Last week we were honored—and tickled—to receive these coins in the mail. They are from Samantha Hirasaki, 5. Her mother...
Museum Friends spend evening with Cherye and Jim Pierce+
The museum’s invaluable volunteer group Honolulu Museum of Art Friends holds four events a year. Last Thursday they organized “An...
Reinstalled second-floor galleries are now open: Explore Africa, the Pacific, and the Americas+
Over the past nine months, big changes have happened in the second-floor galleries of the original 1927 museum building. Curator...
Seeing RED at the Spalding House Shop+
The new shop at Spalding House in Makiki Heights isn’t just one store—expect a series of seasonal pop-ups. Right now,...