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8 0 0 2 R E B M E C E D / R E B M E CalendarNews V HONOLULU ACADEMY OF ARTS O N Muraqqa’: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty Library, Dublin Board of Trustees From the Director Continuing Exhibitions Lynne Johnson , Chairman Dear Friends, Earth and Sky: Chinese Textiles from Decades of Abstraction: Linda Ahlers the Academy’s Collection From the Collection of the Charman J. Akina In September the Academy witnessed a first: the opening of two Burta Atherton I GALLERY 16 THROUGH NOV. 16 Honolulu Academy of Arts Dawn Aull major traveling exhibitions from Honolulu on the East Coast within ee a coat made of wolf fur, sumptuous imperial silk Frank Boas four days of each other: Hawaiian Modern: The Architecture of I Srobes, tapestries and other rarely exhibited works. CLAIRE BOOTH LUCE GALLERY THROUGH OCT. 18, 2009 Mark Burak Vladimir Ossipoff at the Yale University School of Architecture in New hile the Academy makes headlines with its Asian Henry B. Clark, Jr. Wart collections, it also has a comprehensive collec - Samuel A. Cooke Haven, Connecticut, on September 15, and The Dragon’s Gift: The Judy Dawson Sacred Arts of Bhutan at the Rubin Museum of Art in New York City Literati Modern: Bunjinga from tion of modern and contemporary art. The museum Diane Dods Cecilia Doo on September 18. Both exhibitions will continue their tours beyond their current venues: Late-Edo to Twentieth-Century pulls from its collection a survey that reveals the evolu - Barney A. Ebsworth the Ossipoff show opens at the German Architecture Museum in Frankfurt in the spring of Japan, The Terry Welch Collection at tion of American abstraction. Don’t miss the return of Peggy Eu 2009, and the Bhutan exhibition will move on to venues in San Francisco, Cologne, Robert Rauschenberg’s 1962 Trophy V (for Jasper Josh Feldman the Honolulu Academy of Arts Mark Fukunaga Zurich, and other cities in Europe. Johns) , a prime example of his combines, along with Helen Gary These exhibitions, each unique in their own way, bring prestige and visibility to the I HENRY R. LUCE GALLERY THROUGH NOV. 16 works by Lee Bontecou, Helen Frankenthaler, and many Stephanie Hee Academy and to Hawai‘i. They are especially important for helping change the percep - he public debut of the stunning Terry Welch others. An interesting note: Terry Welch, the collector Ron Higgins TCollection at the Honolulu Academy of Arts is an Michael Horikawa tion outside of these islands that relatively little of international cultural significance who assembled the works in Literati Modern , was Claire Johnson happens in Hawai‘i—an absurd notion, but surprisingly widespread beyond our borders. eye-opening look at the transformation of the Japanese highly influenced by the work of Pacific Northwest Akemi Kurokawa scholar-amateur tradition from the pre-modern to the Clarence Lee Both exhibitions focus on themes that had never been the subject of major international painter Mark Tobey, who studied calligraphy. You can Warren K.K. Luke exhibitions, and bring to light material that has never before been published. modern period. From Yokoi Kinkoku’s early 1800s see this Japanese-art connection in Tobey’s 1954 Watters O. Martin, Jr. On another note, I am delighted to announce that the entire collection amassed by the depiction of friends having a tea taste test amid a Margaret Oda painting Untitled , on view in this exhibition, next door Michael O’Neill late scholar Richard Lane, purchased by the Academy from the Court of Kyoto Prefecture swirling landscape to Hirai Baisen’s 20th-century to Literati Modern . Wesley T. Park in 2003 and comprising nearly 20,000 works of art, will be moved to Honolulu over the stylized, brain-twisting scenes of real and mythical James F. Pierce Susan Pillsbury course of the coming year. Having the collection at the Academy will speed up the inven - places, these paintings go beyond any preconceived Graphic Cabinet #3: Face to Face Duane Preble tory and photography of its diverse holdings, and enable us to begin displaying signifi - notions you may have about Japanese hanging scrolls Jean E. Rolles cant parts of this enormous acquisition. Comprising mostly Japanese scroll paintings and and screens. Don’t miss the last two weeks of this I GALLERY 9 THROUGH FEB. 22, 2009 Charles A. Sted ew people know that the Academy owns a notable Charles Stockholm woodblock-illustrated books of the Edo (161 5–1868) and Meiji (186 8–1912) periods, pioneering exhibition that cements the Academy’s repu - Fcollection of photographic works. Portraits are the Donna Tanoue the Lane holdings also include rare examples of Chinese and Korean paintings. tation as the nation’s premier museum for modern Thurston Twigg-Smith focus of this exhibition that includes images by Robert Indru Watumull The first Academy exhibition to focus solely on the Lane Collection will open in Gallery Japanese art. Charles R. Wichman 14 on October 30. Entitled Richard Lane and the Floating World , the exhibition Frank, Robert Mapplethorpe, Mary Ellen Mark, Betty Wo comprises paintings and woodblock-illustrated books of beautiful women ( bijin ) and festi - Nicholas Nixon, Sebastião Salgado, and Garry Emeritus Trustees vals of Edo-period Kyoto. Many of the paintings in the show were recently conserved by Winogrand. See them while you ca n— the highly light- Phoebe Cowles sensitive works rarely go on view. Alice Guild the Academy’s Asian Painting Conservation Studio, under the aegis of Conservator Keiji Kawakami Ephraim “Eddie” Jose. For more on the exhibition, see page 6. Richard Mamiya The end of the year brings Muraqqa’: Imperial Mughal Albums from the Chester Beatty All About Textiles T. Clifford Melim, Jr. Lila Morgan Library, Dublin to the Academy. Exploring the beauty and depth of Indian Mughal I MUSEUM LEARNING CENTER, GALLERY 31, THROUGH Yoshiharu Satoh painting of the 15th through 19th centuries, this exhibition complements the growing AUG. 9, 2009 Joanna Lau Sullivan strengths of the Academy’s permanent collection of Indian art, on display in the Edward D. Sultan, Jr. From Aborigine sorcerer shoes to a Southeast Asian Joanne V. Trotter Jhamandas Watumull Gallery. Next year also promises superb events and exhibitions, eel trap, All About Textiles reveals that textiles are about Stephen Little , Director including the Garden Club of Honolulu’s triennial Flower Show in April, and a major a lot more than fabric. The exhibition reveals why ----------- retrospective of paintings by the internationally renowned artist Masami Teraoka in humans make textiles. The eclectic display reveals On the cover: September. cultures' spirituality, life milestones, identity, and Jujhar Singh Bundela Kneels in Submission to My thanks, at the close of 2008, to the Academy’s outstanding staff, volunteers, Shah Jahan by Bichitr, c. 1630. On view in the personal comfort. In the interactive spaces, visitors can Henry R. Luce Gallery beginning Dec. 17. and Board of Trustees, and to all those whose help and support make these and other weave on a loom, design fashions, tie knots, create quilt ----------- extraordinary programs possible. Calendar News vol. 80, no. 6, is published six designs, and mix and match a trunk load of textiles to times a year as a benefit for museum members by create a vibrant display. Art instructors will assist all Honolulu Academy of Arts 900 South Beretania Street, visitors in a variety of textiles projects. Open Honolulu, Hawai‘i 96814 Editor: Lesa Griffith Wednesdays, Saturdays and Sundays. Design Coordinator: Milt Chun Stephen Little Staff Photographer: Shuzo Uemoto Design: Ledbetter Kennedy Creative Director Printing & Mailing: Edward Enterprises © 2008 Honolulu Academy of Arts, All rights reserved. 2 Calendar News - November/December 2008 3 On Exhibit Mughal splendor Seventeenth-century Imperial India and calligraphy that they assembled now serve as a lives on in the jewel-like paintings from window to understanding the culture of this pivotal the Chester Beatty Library period of Indian history. On view are formal (often symbolic) portraits of the emperors, depictions of fter earning high praise at its debut venue, the members of the royal family in relaxed private settings, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery of the Smithsonian portraits of courtiers and of Sufi saints and mystics, A Institution in Washington, D.C., this exhibition of genre scenes, and natural history subject s— a rich mélange of pictures that allows viewers to enter the Opposite page: some of the best Indian painting in the world opens at Salim Kills a Rhinoceros the Academy. world of these great rulers. This is the first major exhi - and a Lion (50.1) was bition of these stunning, jewel-like works to take place once part of a shikar - The Persian word muraqqa ’ means “patched” or nama, an album of “patched garment.” It came to be applied to Indian outside Dublin. images of the hunt, The Chester Beatty Library holds significant portions presumably compiled albums from the Mughal period due to their patchwork for Prince Salim, who construction, with each album folio, or went on to become Emperor Jahangir. page, consisting of numerous pieces of While most elements of paper pasted together to form a single, the painting, done in 1600 to 1604, are continuous sheet. Originally these folios precisely depicted, the presented an image on one side and a panel influence of European painting and prints can s of calligraphy on the other, with both sides s t t r r A A be seen in the impres - f f o o y y m surrounded by elaborately decorated m sionistic treatment of the e e d d a a c c A A two trees. u u l borders. Folios were arranged so that the l u u l l o o n n o o H H 8 openings of images alternated with openings 8 0 0 Left: 0 0 2 2 © © Folio from the Minto o o t t o of calligraphy.