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Spalding House: Finding X
The second installment of Spalding House’s education-driven exhibition arc is Finding X, which explores the yin-yang-like relationship between mathematics and art through five smaller exhibitions. The TallyHumans have been counting for thousands of years. First, verbally (out loud or mentally), or with fingers, and then with some kind… DETAILS
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Panel From Ceremonial Overskirt. Democratic Republic of the Congo, 2…
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Command Performance: Kuba Cloths from Central Africa
The people of the Kuba Kingdom, in what is now the Democratic Republic of Congo, made textiles that were so highly coveted that they were referred to as the “people of the cloth.” The Kuba wove the leaves of the raffia palm (Raphia textilis) into textiles for ceremonial court adornment, prestigious cloths for negotiating social s… DETAILS
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Donald Roller Wilson (American, born 1938). 'Cookie looked To the Le…
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Serious Fun: Thurston Twigg- Smith + Contemporary Art
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Doug Britt. "Unspoiled," 2012. Oil on canvas.
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Honolulu Museum of Art at First Hawaiian Center
Doug Britt: Far Away“For the past 40 years I have been painting in the middle of the sea, an experience that provides me with ongoing inspiration,” says artist Doug Britt. In Far Away, paintings and found-object sculptures portray a bird’s-eye view of his island home. Recurrent in Britt’s work are transport vessels, s… DETAILS
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Tony Oursler. "I Like You Planet," 2007. Fiberglass sculpture on sta…
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Little Worlds: Video Sculptures by Tony Oursler
New York artist Tony Oursler takes the moving image away from the video monitor and projects it onto three-dimensional surfaces and environments to create miniaturized worlds in which funny, strange, surreal narratives and imagery confront the viewer. This exhibition reveals the development of Oursler’s work from the early 1990s to th… DETAILS
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Thomas Moran (American, 1837–1926). 'The Grand Canyon of the Yellows…
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Landscape in the New World
Fascinated by the mountain ranges of North America, captivated by the volcanoes and rainforests of the tropics, and comforted by the pastoral farmlands of home, 19th-century Americans were obsessed with the natural world, creating a vogue during these decades for scenes of spectacular landscapes that was readily met by artists in pursuit of … DETAILS
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Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720–1778). 'The Flavian Amphitheater ca…
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Antiquity in the 18th Century: Piranesi's Views of Rome
During his lifetime, Giovanni Battista Piranesi produced more than 1,000 etchings and engravings of various places and objects, real and imagined. His first independent commercial success was a set of small-scale etchings called Roman Antiquities from the Time of the First Republic and the First Emperors, which led to the publication of his … DETAILS
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Woman’s Nagajuban (detail), Japan, 1890-1910. Silk, crepe weave, han…
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Revelation: Recent Additions to the Collection
The heart of an art museum is its collection—it is the source for gallery displays, temporary exhibitions, teaching, research, and publishing. This exhibition presents highlights of the works of art, from many generous donors, that have entered the museum's collection over the past two years. This is our first opportunity to reveal the… DETAILS
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Hiratsuka Un’ichi (1895-1997). 'Portrait of James A. Michener,' Japa…
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The Creative Print Movement: In the Words of the Artists and their Patrons
Two of the most influential patrons of the Honolulu Museum of Art’s Japanese print collection, James A. Michener (1907-1997) and Richard D. Lane (1926-2002), were both passionate advocates of the Sōsaku Hanga (Creative Print) Movement—particularly the works in this exhibition—and together they wrote extensively about the mo… DETAILS
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Ya Ming (born 1924). 'Yangzi River,' China, dated 1979. Hanging scro…
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Black Painting: Chinese Artists Persecuted During the Cultural Revolution
The Great Proletarian Cultural Revolution from 1966 to 1976 was one of the most traumatic periods in modern Chinese history, and often is described as the “ten lost years.” The Cultural Revolution had a staggering effect on the arts. Senior artists and teachers were imprisoned in “ox-pens” after being publicly beaten … DETAILS
