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...
Between the stacks: Head librarian Sachiyo Kawai‘ae‘a+
Tucked away between two French oil paintings in the museum’s Modernism gallery—Amédée Ozenfant’s Accords and Robert Delaunay’s Rainbow—is the...
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....
The Jan. 7 opening of ‘Traces and Trajectories’+
Rudimentary video of the Jan. 7 opening of “Traces and Trajectories: Current Work by Ten Korean-American Artists.” It’s a vibrant contemporary...
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...