Cassie Ordonio
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Iranian artist's Honolulu exhibit features stories about being in the diaspora (opens the original)
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The mountainous landscape surrounding Tehran and the damage the U.S. has inflicted on Iran's capital shaped artist Leila Seyedzadeh's recent pieces depicting her upbringing and pain of being far from home. The New York-based Iranian artist hasn't been home in nine years. In the middle of her artist-in-residence program at Shangri La Center for Cultures & Ideas and Museum of Islamic Art in February, the U.S. military launched air strikes on the country, damaging a number of historical monuments a
Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia delay departure from New Zealand again (opens the original)
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The nonprofit Polynesian Voyaging Society announced a further delay in the Moananuiākea Voyage. The plan was for Hōkūleʻa and Hikianalia to depart for Fiji from New Zealand by October. But due to strong El Nino storms, those plans have been pushed back. The canoes have been in New Zealand since November 2025. "So we wait here in Auckland, doing what we need to do to make sure the canoe's ready for the next leg, and hopefully get some training sails in," said Russell Amimoto, a pwo navigator and
Hawaiʻi-based artist wins national award for his kite-fishing series (opens the original)
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Local artist Luke-Thomas Tokimasa Henderson just won a major national award for his artwork series that draws from the ancient and contemporary kite-fishing tradition practiced in Hawai‘i and across the Pacific. “I just started crying,” Henderson said after being notified he received the award. “It’s really important for me to reiterate how grateful I am to have the support system that I have. … So I was overcome with emotions because it felt like all those sacrifices I've seen people do for me
Moving Aloha Stadium’s volcano sculpture could cost $600,000 (opens the original)
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Commissioners at the Hawaiʻi State Foundation on Culture and the Arts are weighing options on what to do with the iconic metal volcano in front of Aloha Stadium. The sculpture was created by the late local artist Satoru Abe in 1981 and has been in front of the stadium’s box office for 45 years. The art piece needs to move because it's in the way of upcoming roadways and infrastructure for the new Aloha Stadium Entertainment District. The State Foundation on Culture and the Arts does not have the
'Troubling Elements': Japanese artist's death revives history of racist remarks (opens the original)
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Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama became famous for her vibrant polka dots and psychedelic art installations, some of which are in Honolulu. She died last month at the age of 97. Her work was exhibited at the Honolulu Museum of Art and at the Honolulu Biennial in 2016 and 2017. Also, her large-scale, bronze sculpture of a polka-dotted pumpkin is prominently displayed at Ala Moana Center in the ʻEwa Wing side of the mall. But Kusama’s death has drawn renewed attention to racist and anti-Black descript
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