Art
Tracing the Colonial Causes of Maui's Wildfires Through 19th-Century Engravings
Rare copperplate engravings made at an American Protestant seminary near Lahaina romanticize the same landscapes endangered by the actions of White settlers.
Robert Becker
Art
The Inexorable Pull of Lisa Yuskavage’s Paintings
This is Yuskavage's great gift, turning upside down our settled ways of thinking and seeing and, with ease, transforming the vulgar and ridiculous into the sublime.
Art
Remembering Basquiat Through the Keepsakes He Gave Intimates
Our Friend, Jean, an exhibition of ephemera left behind, given to, or swapped with people who knew Basquiat prior to his extraordinary fame, offers a tiny but intimate window into his life.
Art
The Death of a Contemporary Art Museum Highlights the Need for Cultural Funding
The dream of an independent institution specifically oriented towards contemporary art in Honolulu was effectively foreclosed when it was recently announced that the HMoA's satellite, Spalding House, would be sold.
Art
Andy, Andy Everywhere
While the Whitney Museum retrospective celebrates his long career, two smaller New York shows cull from Warhol Factory closets important ephemera that illuminate his body of work and his relationship to art making.