Pow! Wow! Hawaii, a street-art festival that attracts dozens of local and international artists to Kakaako and beyond for live-painting on curbside walls, seems to get more colorful and sprawl more widely each year. Read more
There is arguably no better place to see, in one space, the full breadth and scope of Hawaii print art than the Honolulu Printmakers annual juried exhibition. Read more
If you’re looking to get some early holiday shopping done, consider checking out the artwork at the Four Seasons Resort Oahu at Ko Olina’s monthly Art Walk. Read more
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Hawaii State Art Museum has turned the lens on the masculine gender with its new exhibit, “Men.” Read more
Get a look at some of the state’s best in crafts at the 51st Hawai‘i Craftsmen Annual Statewide Juried Exhibition, which opens next week at the Honolulu Museum of Art school. Read more
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Art makes bold, beautiful or engaging statements about our social and aesthetic world. Yet the piece of work itself is only the tip of a rich and voluminous ether of ideas that inspired it. Read more
“Silent Empowerment,” a one-day arts event at the Salt at Our Kakaako common space, has been rescheduled in the wake of Hurricane Lane. Read more
“Silent Empowerment,” a one-day arts event at the Salt at Our Kakaako common space, is dedicated to empowering victims of domestic and sexual abuse and preventing violence. Read more
Anton Chekov’s work endures, and remains relevant. With the help of playwright and screenwriter Stephen Karam, director Michael Mayer has brought a new cinematic adaptation to the screen of Chekov’s ”The Seagull,” imbuing the tale of complicated family dynamics, creation and heartbreak with an unprecedented sense of intimacy. Read more
Sustainability is a hot topic in the worlds of policy and design. But what does it mean to make sustainable art – and what vision does it hold for our future? Read more
Fabric is one of the things we take most for granted in the modern age. Yet for Native Hawaiians, creating cloth, or kapa, from bark and other available materials was a multistep, physically demanding, creative process that can take a lifetime to perfect. Read more
“Last Known Locations,” a visually arresting and heart-wrenching exhibition by Honolulu-born painter Lauren Hana Chai, launches a quarterly series of art displays at the Kakaako co-working space Impact Hub. Read more
Maoli Arts Alliance’s annual juried exhibition, “Contact,” marks its fifth installment this year. “Contact Zone” is by far the most pointedly critical to date. Read more
A pop-up exhibition titled “Flooded,” featuring climate change landscape with food, will be open to the public at Luxury Row in Waikiki through April 30. The show is presented by the Honolulu Biennial Foundation and features the work of photographer Heami Lee. Read more
“Bandits & Heroes, Poets & Saints: Popular Art From the Northeast of Brazil” explores the blending of immigrant culture and art with indigenous and colonial traditions. Read more
The HiSAM x MORI Gallery Shop inside the Hawaii State Art Museum held its First Friday art reception on Jan. 5 for “Stone and Sea,” an exhibit featuring photographs by Franco Salmoiraghi and Mark Kushimi, and sculpture by Nick Bleecker and Kamran Samimi. Read more
In photographs, multimedia sculpture and video inspired by the mysterious loss of her mother, who was killed when the artist was a young girl in Nigeria, Honolulu-based artist Nanci Amaka explores the concepts of love, loss, embodiment, and letting go —and the anxieties affiliated with those emotions and experiences. Read more
In photographs, multimedia sculpture and video inspired by the mysterious loss of her mother, who was killed when the artist was a young girl in Nigeria, Honolulu-based artist Nanci Amaka explores the concepts of love, loss, embodiment, and letting go — and the anxieties affiliated with those emotions and experiences. Read more
Always wanted to create art but not really ready to commit to a multisession class? The Louis Pohl Gallery is offering an opportunity to let your creative imagination loose on a weekly basis, with anew “Make Art Every Saturday” experience that began this month. Read more
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