Last spring, boy was I excited to get a call from a New Yorker fact checker. She wanted to know...
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Dec 7: A Hawai‘i artist’s connection to Japan+
Last month, BBC journalist and presenter Peter Snow interviewed Curator of European and American Art Theresa Papanikolas via Skype for...
Curator’s Notes: The New Ceramics Cabinet+
Many museums are re-installing their ceramics collections in a manner that reflects the high point of innovation in Western ceramics—the...
Curator’s notes: Extreme Makeover: Gallery 4 Edition+
At long last, Gallery 4 has a new look! When I arrived at the Academy three years ago, I was...
Curator’s Notes: Delving into ‘Anxiety’s Edge’+
Three more days until Anxiety’s Edge opens in the new contemporary art gallery. The work is installed, the floors are...
Hiroshige’s fierce eagle+
There’s just four days left to see the woodblock print exhibition Ukiyo-e Par Excellence. Assistant Curator Sawako Chang selected some...
Behind the art: The Vogels and Edda Renouf+
Our current special exhibition, Exquisitely Modern: 50 Works from Herbert and Dorothy Vogel, has a back story that is as...
The Vogel exhibition: Making the conceptual concrete+
Curator Theresa Papanikolas and the installation crew are in the final stretch of installing Exquisitely Modern: 50 Works from Herbert...
An Armenian in Hawai‘i+
Artist Arman Manookian designed Christmas cards for the belated Star Bulletin. Like this one. So he wasn’t a great speller!...
Our “Water Lilies” on an urban adventure+
Now on view through June 26 at Gagosian Gallery in New York City is the exhibition Monet. The survey of...