Museum experts sit together to discuss the opportunities facing the changing museum.

As part of programming for Satoru Abe: Reaching for the Sun, in November 2024 Hawai‘i artists John Koga and Kamran Samimi discussed Abe's lasting impact on contemporary art—including their own—in Hawai‘i and beyond. Moderated by Associate Curator of Contemporary Art Katherine Love.

Robert Steele and Halona Norton-Westbrook have an intimate conversation on the impact and legacy of Black culture within contemporary art and the Steeles’ important gift to the museum.