This week the museum opens three new exhibitions at its...
Contemporary art
Artist Q+A: Dianna Cohen on art and plastic+
The current Spalding House exhibition Plastic Fantastic? is about getting...
New museum mural: Pow! Wow! Hawai‘i artist Curiot on his megalopolis monster+
Visitors to the museum this past week were greeted by...
‘Plastic Fantastic?': A look behind the scenes with Kim and Jack Johnson+
Two weeks ago, Kim and Jack Johnson visited Spalding House...
Pow! Wow! Hawai‘i is back, and that means a new wall mural+
The scaffolding is going up today—star muralist Curiot flies into...
Art event: Benefit sale of the late, revered Robert Kobayashi’s work happens Feb 4+
When Honolulu-born Robert “Kobi” Kobayashi passed away in December, the...
Take a virtual tour of ‘Hiroshige’s City: From Edo to Tokyo’+
The Honolulu Museum of Art is home to the world’s...
Reem Bassous: Finding identity in her paintings+
Reem Bassous’s solo show Beyond the Archive: Paintings by Reem...
On view in ‘American Array,’ Alice Neel’s ‘Victoria and the Cat.’+
Now on view in the Contemporary Gallery is American Array, a...
For teachers: Sign your class up for a multidisciplinary ‘Plastic Fantastic?’ experience, Feb 3–July 10+
The museum’s new school tour focuses on plastic—its history, the...
Visualizing transcendence: Lucas Samaras’ ‘Untitled (Skull in Colored Nebula)’+
On view in American Array, Greek-American art wizard Lucas Samaras’...
Sara Oka on the road to ‘Harajuku’+
What started as an idea in the overactive brain of...
Here today, gone October 25: Look for these works in ‘American Array’ while you can+
Now that Feast of Fools: The Triptych Paintings of Masami...
Wendy Kawabata on her installation ʻIn the Landʻ+
From Sept. 17 to 24, Wendy Kawabata was in the...
‘Pontchartrain': Robert Colescott’s enigmatic narrative+
Now on view in the Contemporary Art Gallery is Robert...
What’s new at the Art School this fall+
When registration opened for fall classes at the Art School...
Masami Teraoka receives Lee Krasner Award+
The museum congratulates Masami Teraoka, who found out last week...
Aaron Noble: See him complete his TXT/MSG installation at Spalding House this week+
Aaron Noble hovers over his latest work, painting black lines...
Meet our members: Shoko and Andrew Livingston (and their #ArtShop experience!)+
The goal of Contempo #ArtShop, which ended yesterday, basically was...
Artists of Hawai’i 2015: Jesse Houlding on the process for his ‘Truck Drawing’ series+
Note: This is the last progress report from an Artist...
Artists of Hawai‘i 2015: Lauren Trangmar on the Process of Creation+
A small collection of process-related sneak peeks: The beginning… A...
Meet Giant Robot’s Eric Nakamura: Connecting with people through art+
In 1994, Eric Nakamura was a cool 24-year-old Japanese-American punk...
Artist Ekundayo on what lies ‘Beneath the Surface’—the new mural in the theater+
From May 25 to 30, Hawai‘i-born visual artist was in...
Contempo #ArtShop: Artist Jane Hammond on her lush botanical collages+
At the heart of Contempo #ArtShop, opening June 19 at...
Artists of Hawai‘i 2015: Emily McIlroy on her path to ‘Sky Burial’+
Sky Burial, the largest and most labor intensive piece I’ve...
Artists of Hawai‘i 2015 update: Apps and pastry wrappings+
Regular blog readers may remember that earlier this month, curator...
Artists of Hawai‘i 2015: Lauren Trangmar on her research process+
Curiosity is the desire to uncover what lies beyond our...
Find out what Giant Robot artist Yoskay Yamamoto has in store for #ArtShop+
The upcoming massive exhibition at Contempo #ArtShop at Spalding House,...
Ayad Alkadhi on ‘I Am Baghdad XV’+
The exhibition Doris Duke’s Shangri La: Architecture, Landscape and...
Staff Picks: Katherine Love+
“I like to support and promote women artists, because sometimes...