“Sen. Inouye made great contributions to our community and his loss is mourned by the museum.”—Honolulu Museum of Art director...
Academy Registrar in Beijing 4: On Location in the Palace Museum+
For the “Masterpieces of Landscape Painting from the Forbidden City,” I had the opportunity to get behind-the-scenes access to the...
Academy Registrar in Beijing 3: Encounters with the Unexpected+
Third in my series on being a courier for “Masterpieces of Landscape Painting from the Forbidden City.” Part of my...
How a registrar prepares for an assignment to Beijing+
Several months before going to Beijing as a courier for “Masterpieces of Landscape Painting from the Forbidden City” in October,...
Forbidden City, Beijing+
As HAA’s registrar I often escort our artwork to foreign places. In October I was very lucky to be part...
Curator’s notes: To New York to fetch the Cézanne+
From Curator of European and American Art Theresa Papanikolas, who recently returned from New York: Each year, the Academy receives...
In memory of Toshiko Takaezu+
In a tranquil corner of the Honolulu Academy of Arts is a mini petrified forest—three branchless trunks stand sentinel outside...
O‘ahu artist Deb Nehmad in show at Katonah Museum of Art+
O‘ahu-based artist Deb Nehmad is in the group show Drawn/Taped/Burned: Abstraction on Paper at the Katonah Museum of Art in...
Banksy’s identity revealed—through eBay!+
My cousin Derek Sayegusa, account exec at KUMU, just emailed me a link to an eBay item. For $3,000 you...
The Dragon’s Gift opens in Zürich+
The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan is on the final stop of its global journey—on July 4 the...