Honolulu Academy of Arts is launching an extravaganza of modernist works featuring interactive exhibits, technique displays by local artists, a film series, mini art courses and lots of tours. Why modernism? Theresa Papanikolas, the Academy’s curator of European and American… [»Read]
One of the things we’ll be watching closely when the numbers from the 2010 U.S. Census begin to trickle in: the percentage of Hawaii residents who speak the Hawaiian language. In 2000, the last time the Census Bureau checked, it was fewer than one person in 1,000. Now,… [»Read]
How do you speak of something unspeakable? How do you represent visually something you might rather erase? But does such representation provide a way of understanding and of coming to terms with what marks and wounds us? Artist Reem Bassous grew up in Beirut, Lebanon, when… [»Read]
When Lee Kekoa started gardening with a group of friends, he knew there was something bigger in store for his environmentally conscious crew. As artists and lovers of the natural world, the group decided to share the energy they were putting into the ground, and turn it… [»Read]
We know there is much necessary environmental action to be taken, but it can be difficult to know where to begin. Enter: Greenfleet Hawaii, a new resource for environmentally minded Hawaii residents. The site encourages a greener and healthier lifestyle by making it… [»Read]
She sees him as she’s heading toward Kailua on Kalanianaole, approaching Waimanalo, where it looks like all of the Kapiolani Park refugees have settled at Waimanalo Beach Park. There are countless tents and canopies, flap to flap, along the highway. The man rises… [»Read]
Creating art should be a limitless process. At least, that’s Noa Laporga’s philosophy. He’s pioneer–or maybe more appropriately “captain”–of the groundUP Pirates, a Honolulu-founded group of independent artists of all categories and spheres. “You should do… [»Read]
As a college student in Long Beach, Calif., Hawaii-born Nini Nguyen loved shopping at Buffalo Exchange, a mainland thrift-store with dozens of locations countrywide. It offered the kind of shopping experience–the classic neighborhood consignment shop with a twist–that… [»Read]
They are strangers, but they’ve arrived at the tomatoes about the same time, and so they exchange chatter about price and taste nowadays. He begins to tell her about his beautiful daughter, how she won beauty pageants as a child and had grown into a sucessful business… [»Read]
As a child, Cassandra Rockwood-Rice fell in love with art when her uncle, who was an artist, taught her how to draw a “floating waterfall.” You draw two patches of grass, then connect them, explains Rockwood-Rice. When her uncle died, Rockwood-Rice says, something grew… [»Read]
Ron Irwin’s Asian-inspired shop looks like it was airlifted from Bali to Kaimuki. As the owner of Indigé Design, his primary interest is to bring local residents beautiful, quality clothing and décor from fair-trade artisans around the world. Irwin’s enthusiasm for… [»Read]
He’s in the parking lot the end of the road, watching the airplanes loop around. There’s a family out for a walk, a couple talking, somebody repacking her bags. The guy is thinking about how cool airports are, especially the rusty parts of them, the old hangars and faded… [»Read]
Not just aesthetically beautiful, dance is a language with a complete vocabulary all its own. It can be ethereal, forceful, mournful, humorous, ecstatic and violent–and dancers move between these and other extremes gracefully, sometimes imperceptibly. This weekend, the… [»Read]
I get my hands on it and I can’t stop. I press and press and press until there’s nothing left. It’s a horrible little addiction. Sound familiar? It should. Every person out there who’s a tad obsessive-compulsive can relate to that thought, especially as it relates… [»Read]
Founded in 1978, Bamboo Ridge, Journal of Hawaii Literature and Arts is a respected non-profit local periodical, dedicating itself to publishing works bi-annually about Hawaii and its people. With more than 30 contributing writers–many of them–born and raised… [»Read]
