Joyful Return is the Honolulu Museum of Art's museum-wide exhibition featuring a series of outdoor pop-up installations and a gallery installation—a fresh, fun, community-driven experience celebrating a return to art making, conversations, and personal connections. Joyful Return is taking advantage of the museum's many open-air and courtyard spaces to provide safe, fun ways for everyone … Continue reading Joyful Return

Head over to HoMA for their Summer Nights live music series for a performance from Honolulu-based singer and songwriter IZIK in the Central Courtyard on Saturday, July 24. IZIK is an award-winning performer with multiple local, national and international tours under his belt. He credits his musical influences to artists like Mariah Carey, The Carpenters, … Continue reading IZIK Live at HoMA Summer Nights

HoMA's major fall exhibition Artists of Hawai‘i Now featires 13 new works by 18 contemporary Hawai‘i artists. Through a mix of technology, new media, performance, site-specific works, and traditional art practices, the dynamic, thought-provoking works in Artists of Hawai‘i Now examines some of today's most crucial and timely themes. Explore the collective vision of this diverse … Continue reading Artists of Hawai‘i Now

Out Palestinian artist Jordan Nassar has been in residency at Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture and Design since July 3, and you can now see the resulting installation--his first large scale tile mosaic-- Lēʻahi (also known as Diamond Head), on view through May 27, 2023. Nassar’s multivalent art practice engages the material varieties … Continue reading Jordan Nassar: Lēʻahi

The debut feature from writer-director Saim Sadiq, Joyland explores the many sides of love and desire in a patriarchal society. Gentle and timid, Haider (Ali Junejo) lives with his wife Mumtaz (Rasti Farooq), his father, and his elder brother’s family in Lahore, Pakistan. Following a long spell of unemployment, Haider finally lands a job at a Bollywood-style … Continue reading August 19, 24 & 26: Joyland (جوائے لینڈ)

No Ordinary Love is Salman Toor’s (b. 1983, Pakistan) first museum exhibition in the Pacific region. The show features approximately 40 recent paintings and works on paper in the artist’s unique style of contemporary genre painting. Weaving together contemporary scenes with historical motifs drawn from European, American, and South Asian artistic traditions, Toor’s work tells stories … Continue reading Through October 8: Salman Toor | No Ordinary Love

Art for Life is HoMAʻs new community-based art-making program for individuals age 55+. The classes are designed to unleash creativity and self-expression and offer opportunities for new connections. Art making has the transformative power to foster community and ignite passion, purpose, and curiosity. Each class is an opportunity for self-directed learning and social interaction and … Continue reading Art for Life

See and experience a wave of innovative directors from Hawai‘i and across the US continent in this roundup of short films. The lineup features narrative, documentary, and experimental work that centers voices that have historically been marginalized and misrepresented in cinema. The filmmakers aim to co-create futures of healing, narrative sovereignty, and beloved community. Admission to this … Continue reading Huli of Consciousness

Itʻs the last week to catch this exhibition exploring six decades of prints and multiples (including the groundbreaking "Fourteen Poems by C.P. Cavafy" portfolio from 1966) by acclaimed British artist David Hockney. Many of his iconic subjects—such as Southern California swimming pools, monumental landscapes, playful theater designs, and sometimes tender, sometimes quirky portrayals of family, … Continue reading David Hockney: Perspective Should Be Reversed

The films of the New Queer Cinema pioneer Greg Araki have seen a resurgence of interest the past few years, with his movies taking on new relevancy. This retrospective at HoMAʻs Doris Duke Theatre includes Araki’s breakout hit The Living End, along with his Teenage Apocalypse Trilogy (Totally F***ed Up, The Doom Generation, and Nowhere) and Mysterious … Continue reading Through July 7: Gregg Araki Retrospective at HoMA