Spalding House curator Aaron Padilla was looking for a way to illustrate the idea of kinesis for the exhibition Inquiring...
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...
On the frontline: Kim Hutchison+
Here at the Honolulu Museum of Art, highly accomplished individuals work together to deliver high-quality, inspirational experiences for the community....
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....
Buy the auteur theory? Come see Alain Robbe-Grillet’s films+
Alain Robbe-Grillet is best known as the creator of the Nouveau Roman and screenwriter of Alain Resnais’ cinegeek wetdream ‘Last...
Academy Docent Charlene Hughes shows her quilts in D.C. for the big inauguration+
When O‘ahu-based quilter and Academy docent Charlene Hughes got a phone call at 7 a.m. last month to see if...
Cool really was king @ Starlight Ball 6+
Vintage dresses were out in force at the sixth Starlight Ball—ARTafterDARK‘s annual fundraiser gala for the Academy’s Art to Go...
New HNL art blog!+
There isn’t enough art dialogue in Hawai‘i—which is strange because there are so many talented artists here. Is it because...
Liked ‘Slumdog’? Try the Bollywood Film Festival+
After recounting the harrowing childhoods of two orphaned street urchins, current international movie hit “Slumdog Millionaire” bursts into a song-and-dance...
Art: The fountain of youth+
James Foster, director of the Academy from 1963 to 1982, says he acquired Harry Bertoia’s “Sounding Sculpture” so the...
Top 10 Academy stories of 2008+
The Star Bulletin named the Academy’s landmark exhibition “The Dragon’s Gift: The Sacred Arts of Bhutan” as one of the...
Scott Johnson on tengu+
We continue our minitour of “Richard Lane and the Floating World,” now on view in Gallery 14 through Feb. 1....
Robert Frank on ‘The Americans’+
On view in Gallery 9 right now is Robert Frank’s “Charleston, South Carolina,” a print from his seminal series “The...
Social Circles+
Since October 2008, the Academy has been reaching out to its online audience via social networking sites such as Facebook,...