Last year, when Curator of European and American Art Theresa Papanikolas was working on “From Whistler to Warhol: Modernism on...
Permanent Collection
Our Cézanne drawing may head to London, see it while you can+
On view in “From Whistler to Warhol: Modernism on Paper” is a sketch that Paul Cézanne did sometime between 1890...
I Heart Grandma+
There is something special to see in lightly traversed gallery 22, currently home to an exhibition of textiles that were...
Connecting the dots+
On view in the exhibition “From Whistler to Warhol: Modernism on Paper” is Raoul Dufy’s “The Woman of Martinique,” which...
Happy Birthday Auguste Renoir+
Auguste Renoir was born 169 years ago today in Limoges, France. We’re so lucky to have his etching “A Dance...
Harajuku in Hokusai’s day (+ aloHAA goes bilingual!)+
Tokyo’s Harajuku district is the place to see the latest street fashions on the city’s hipsters. It’s a crowded urban...
Why Hokusai’s got the blues+
Katsushika Hokusai used a lot of blue dye in his “Thirty-six Views of Mount Fuji” prints. Honolulu Academy of Arts...
‘The Lost Symbol’ at the Academy in January+
A fan of Dan Brown’s latest blockbuster—an exploration into the mysteries of Freemasonry? (As Maureen Dowd wrote in The New...
Can’t stop going in Gallery 27+
Staff are abuzz about Curator Theresa Papanikolas’ and Installation Designer Larry Maruya’s reinstallation of the Clare Boothe Luce Gallery (aka...
Mirror image? Hokusai’s idealized Mount Fuji+
At first glance, Katushika Hokusai’s woodblock print “Reflection in Lake Misaka in Kai Province,” part of the series “Thirty-six Views...