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NOW ON VIEW → "Honor Thy Mother and Father: Depictions of Filial Piety in Japan" Explore prints by Okumura Masanobu, Uta...
08/29/2026

NOW ON VIEW → "Honor Thy Mother and Father: Depictions of Filial Piety in Japan"

Explore prints by Okumura Masanobu, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi that illustrate respectful behavior towards parents and other figures of authority.

📍"Honor Thy Mother and Father" is on view through through Jan. 3, 2027 in Gallery 21. Made possible by the Robert F. Lange Foundation.

Today the Museum remembers the life of Yayoi Kusama, the iconic artist whose signature polka dots covered everything fro...
08/28/2026

Today the Museum remembers the life of Yayoi Kusama, the iconic artist whose signature polka dots covered everything from paintings and pumpkins to galleries and bodies. Her work has appeared across Hawai‘i over the years, including a sculpture at Ala Moana Center and past installations at Ward Village IBM Building and Foster Botanical Garden.

"I remember just being obsessed. I went back about 10 times," Fredrica Cassiday, collector and longtime member of the Museum ‘ohana, once told us about seeing a large-scale painting by Yayoi Kusama in 1969. While she didn't buy the painting, the work stayed with her.

Years later Cassiday purchased "Waves I," eventually donating it to HoMA as part of a gift of 22 artworks. You can see the print and reflect on Kusama's legacy starting Sept. 12, when it goes on view as part of the exhibition "Vital Connections."

We've updated the Artists of Hawaiʻi Biennial 2026 Prospectus with all the confirmed artist awards so far! The list is a...
08/28/2026

We've updated the Artists of Hawaiʻi Biennial 2026 Prospectus with all the confirmed artist awards so far! The list is as follows:

🔸 DAC Artist Awards: 🔸

Best In Show Award — ($10,000)
Elizabeth Rice Grossman Award — ($5,000)
Marcy and Robert Katz Award for Ceramics — ($1,500)
The John Young Foundation Award — ($3,000)
Cedar Street Galleries Award of Excellence — ($750)
The Louis Pohl Award (*New!) — ($500)
The Sanit Khewhok Award (*New!) — ($500)

Additional awards are generously provided by The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) from its Artists of Hawaiʻi-related endowed funds to directly support local artists featured in this exhibition.

🔹 HoMA Awards: 🔹

HoMA's Jim Winters Award for 3-Dimensional Design — ($1,500)
HoMA's Reuben Tam Award for Painting — ($2,000)
HoMA's Melusine Award for Painting — ($5,000)
HoMA's Roselle Davenport Award for Artistic Excellence — ($4,000)
HoMA's Violette Wong Hu Award (to support an amateur artist) — ($5,000)
HoMA's Cynthia and David Eyre Award — ($2,000)
HoMA's Ellen Choy Craig Endowed Fund Award — ($4,000)

All awards are exclusive of each other - each artist may win only one award. To find out more about this exhibition, on view November 6-December 19, 2026 at Downtown Art Center, visit downtownarthi.org/artistsofhawaii!
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Today marks the 110th birthday of the National Park Service! 🌲✨ In celebration of National Park Week and Frederic Church...
08/26/2026

Today marks the 110th birthday of the National Park Service! 🌲✨

In celebration of National Park Week and Frederic Church 200, Director of Curatorial Affairs Catherine Whitney takes a closer look at the painting "The Andes of Ecuador" by Frederic E. Church.

Get her curatorial insight on this eye-catching artwork and the 19th-century ideas of nature, exploration, imperialism, and conservation on our blog: https://bit.ly/4yn2egH

Fascinated by the exhibition "Divine Disruption"? Learn more about its curation and the artist behind it, Tsherin Sherpa...
08/21/2026

Fascinated by the exhibition "Divine Disruption"? Learn more about its curation and the artist behind it, Tsherin Sherpa, tomorrow, Aug. 21!

Join John Henry Rice, the E. Rhodes and Leona B. Carpenter Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and Shawn Eichman, the Ina Goodwin Tateuchi Senior Curator of Asian Art, as they take the stage at the Doris Duke Theatre to discuss Sherpa's work and the artist's unorthodox practice.

🎟️ Get tickets: https://bit.ly/4eGU0Yo

Did someone just say "new exhibition"?See illustrations about filial piety—respectful behavior towards parents and other...
08/20/2026

Did someone just say "new exhibition"?

See illustrations about filial piety—respectful behavior towards parents and other figures of authority—when "Honor Thy Mother and Father: Depictions of Filial Piety in Japan" opens Friday, Aug. 28.

On view are prints by Okumura Masanobu, Utagawa Hiroshige, and Utagawa Kuniyoshi that depict scenes from three classic literary works: "The Twenty-four Paragons of Filial Piety," "The Tale of the Soga Brothers," and "Kanadehon Chūshingura (The Treasury of Loyal Retainers)."

📍 Explore "Honor Thy Mother and Father" from Aug. 28, 2026 to Jan. 3, 2027 in Gallery 21.

Due to inclement weather, the Honolulu Museum of Art will be closed Sunday, Aug. 16, for the safety of our visitors and ...
08/15/2026

Due to inclement weather, the Honolulu Museum of Art will be closed Sunday, Aug. 16, for the safety of our visitors and staff. This closure includes the Café, Shop, Doris Duke Theatre, and Art School.

Community Sunday is also canceled.

🏛️ We will reopen during normal hours Wednesday, Aug. 19, at 10am.

A couple on a date at a drive-in movie theater as a steam locomotive passes by 🚂💭 ... the nostalgia factor is high with ...
08/13/2026

A couple on a date at a drive-in movie theater as a steam locomotive passes by 🚂💭 ... the nostalgia factor is high with this arresting image.

Photographer O. Winston Link staged this shot—one of his most famous—with dozens of flashbulbs placed along the tracks and around the theater. The movie screen was captured separately, later combined with the main negative in the darkroom.

He would write in one of his notebooks about the photograph, "Since I could only see the headlights of the locomotive in total darkness, I did not know until the flash was fired that I had captured this prize—Class A engine with beautiful smoke with all of it in range!"

📍 Get a closer look at this nighttime scene in "Out of the Shadows," on view in Gallery 9 through Sept. 27. The rotation illustrates how artists used photography to reveal details invisible to the naked eye.

Explore the most influential films of Ingmar Bergman, widely considered one of cinema's most important filmmakers of all...
08/06/2026

Explore the most influential films of Ingmar Bergman, widely considered one of cinema's most important filmmakers of all time, on the big screen at the Doris Duke Theatre 🎥, Aug. 6–30.

Not sure where to start? Read a special curator's take on the six defining films screening this month and get tickets: https://bit.ly/3TErC2g

BONUS: Bergman's masterpieces come with solid air conditioning. Get some Swedish enlightenment while you beat the summer heat.

Celebrate Lā Ho‘iho‘i Ea with a self-guided tour that explores themes of Ea and Hawaiian sovereignty. Swipe for a previe...
07/31/2026

Celebrate Lā Ho‘iho‘i Ea with a self-guided tour that explores themes of Ea and Hawaiian sovereignty. Swipe for a preview of the artworks you'll come across your journey. →

Established on July 31, 1843, Lā Ho‘iho‘i Ea commemorates the restoration of the Hawaiian Kingdom after the British temporarily seized control.

Are you kama‘āina? Enjoy free admission to HoMA today in celebration of Lā Hoʻihoʻi Ea.

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