Events

Directed by Masaaki Yuasa. 2017. Japan. English dubbed. 107 min. From visionary anime auteur Masaaki Yuasa comes a joyously hallucinogenic—and family-friendly—take on the classic fairy tale about a little mermaid who co...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. United Kingdom | France | United States. 2017. 90 mins.   Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a traumatized veteran who works as a contract k...

Join docent Dwight Lowrey for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Aaron Katz. 2017. USA. 93 min. A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant played by Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle) and her Hollywood starlet boss (Zoë Kravitz). As the assis...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. United Kingdom | France | United States. 2017. 90 mins.   Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a traumatized veteran who works as a contract k...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. United Kingdom | France | United States. 2017. 90 mins.   Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a traumatized veteran who works as a contract k...

Join a docent for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Aaron Katz. 2017. USA. 93 min. A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant played by Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle) and her Hollywood starlet boss (Zoë Kravitz). As the assis...

Led by Lizzy Lowrey Mad Enchantment tells the extraordinary story behind the painting of the Water Lilies, chronicling how these entrancing images were produced at a time of terrible private turmoil and sadness and against the backdrop ...

Directed by Aaron Katz. 2017. USA. 93 min. A heinous crime tests the complex relationship between a tenacious personal assistant played by Lola Kirke (Mozart in the Jungle) and her Hollywood starlet boss (Zoë Kravitz). As the assis...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. United Kingdom | France | United States. 2017. 90 mins.   Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a traumatized veteran who works as a contract k...

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. United Kingdom | France | United States. 2017. 90 mins.   Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a traumatized veteran who works as a contract k...

Join a docent for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Lynne Ramsay. United Kingdom | France | United States. 2017. 90 mins.   Joaquin Phoenix won the Best Actor Award at the 2017 Cannes Film Festival for his portrayal of a traumatized veteran who works as a contract k...

In the Hawaiian language, the word "noho" means “possession of a medium by a spirit or god.” It also means to possess or to be possessed. The English meaning is to have as belonging to one or to own. Come and hear master stor...

Directed by Carol Mansour. 2017. Palestine / Lebanon. 78 min. Arabic with English subtitles. Twelve Palestinian women talk of their life before the Diaspora. They share their memories,  lives and identity. Their narratives are conn...

Directed by Annemarie Jacir. 2017. Palestine / France. 96 min. Arabic with English subtitles.   Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. His daughter is getting married in a month,...

Directed by Raed Andoni. 2017. Palestine / France. 94 min. Arabic with English subtitles. To confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to build a replica of Al-Mosko...

Directed by Carol Mansour. 2017. Palestine / Lebanon. 78 min. Arabic with English subtitles. Twelve Palestinian women talk of their life before the Diaspora. They share their memories,  lives and identity. Their narratives are conn...

Join a docent for a themed tour, followed by an art discussion. Visitors meet the docent at the entrance to the museum. Free with museum admission.

Directed by Raed Andoni. 2017. Palestine / France. 94 min. Arabic with English subtitles. To confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to build a replica of Al-Mosko...

Directed by Annemarie Jacir. 2017. Palestine / France. 96 min. Arabic with English subtitles.   Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. His daughter is getting married in a month,...

Directed by Raed Andoni. 2017. Palestine / France. 94 min. Arabic with English subtitles. To confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to build a replica of Al-Mosko...

Directed by Carol Mansour. 2017. Palestine / Lebanon. 78 min. Arabic with English subtitles. Twelve Palestinian women talk of their life before the Diaspora. They share their memories,  lives and identity. Their narratives are conn...

Directed by Annemarie Jacir. 2017. Palestine / France. 96 min. Arabic with English subtitles.   Abu Shadi is a divorced father and a school teacher in his mid-sixties living in Nazareth. His daughter is getting married in a month,...

Directed by Raed Andoni. 2017. Palestine / France. 94 min. Arabic with English subtitles. To confront the ghosts that haunt him, Palestinian director Raed Andoni assembles an eclectic group of ex-prisoners to build a replica of Al-Mosko...

When local music legend John Cruz saw slack-key guitarist Michael Tanenbaum and electric guitar Nick Gertsson performing at a Kailua coffee shop, he described their sound as “the perfect wave.” The name stuck, and the duo inv...

Directed by Sadaf Foroughi. Canada, Iran. 2017. 103 min. Persian with English subtitles. Based on her adolescent experiences, Iranian-Canadian filmmaker Sadaf Foroughi’s feature debut Ava is a gripping debut about a young girl&rsq...

In collaboration with Planned Parenthood Young Leaders, Our Bodies, Our Choices, Our Stories, Our Voices is a performance-based event showcasing spoken-word slams and storytelling from the perspective of the woman-identified individual. ...

Directed by Tony Scott. UK | USA. 1983. 98 min. Don’t miss this chance to see the sexiest vampire film ever made—with a young David Bowie, Susan Sarandon and Catherine Deneuve cavorting to Bauhaus’s Bela Lugosi&rsquo...

Making Waves is the first of two exhibitions highlighting the important role of women artists in the museum’s contemporary collection. In this show, the works by international and Hawai‘i-based artists all have a relationship...

Directed by Mahamat-Saleh Haroun. Chad | France | Belgium. 2010. French & Arabic with English subtitles. 102 min. Adam, a 60-something former swimming champion, is a pool attendant at a hotel in N’Djamena, the capital of Cha...

Directed by Matteo Troncone. 2017. Italy. English and Italian with English subtitles. 96 min. Presented in partnership with Friends of Italy Society of Hawaii  Arrangiarsi (pizza... and the art of living) chronicl...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes. U.K. | Ireland. 2018. 115 min. This electrifying look at the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with ...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes. U.K. | Ireland. 2018. 115 min. This electrifying look at the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with ...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes. U.K. | Ireland. 2018. 115 min. This electrifying look at the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with ...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes. U.K. | Ireland. 2018. 115 min. This electrifying look at the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with ...

Directed by Sophie Fiennes. U.K. | Ireland. 2018. 115 min. This electrifying look at the public and private worlds of pop culture icon Grace Jones contrasts musical sequences with intimate personal footage, all the while brimming with ...

Special thanks to our community partner: Women in Renewable Energy (WiRE) and Hawaii State Energy Office Filmmaker James Redford (son of Robert) embarks on a colorful personal journey into the dawn of the clean ener...

The Merwin Conservancy and the Honolulu Museum of Art are proud to present an intimate evening with poets Naomi Shihab Nye of Texas and Cathy Song of Hawai‘i. The Green Room is an environmental and literary salon series that foster...

Docent: Dietra Cordea The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spainby Maria Rosa Menocal Learn about medieval Spain in this vividly and richly told book. This is an importa...

Sponsored by The Pōpolo Project  Join us for a live reading by Black Lives Matter co-founder Patrisse Khan-Cullors from her newly released book When They Call You a Terrorist: A Black Lives Matter Memoir. The reading will be follow...

The Honolulu Museum of Art is a Mixed Plate, with an encyclopedic collection as diverse as your favorite plate lunch! Presented by FICOH. ADMISSION Museum members: Admission is free for museum members. You do not need a ticket. F...

Docent: Dietra Cordea The Ornament of the World: How Muslims, Jews and Christians Created a Culture of Tolerance in Medieval Spainby Maria Rosa Menocal Learn about medieval Spain in this vividly and richly told book. This is an importa...

Directed by Chris Jordan. 2017. USA. 97 min. Presented in collaboration with the Friends of Midway Atoll  Albatross is a stunning visual journey exploring the impacts of global plastic pollution through the eyes of the alb...

Altered Visions: Diana Nicholette JeonDiana Nicholette Jeon’s digital photographic series featuring colorful, out-of-focus images is an attempt to visualize what the Hawai‘i shoreline might have looked like to her late mother...

While to some extent influenced by Western artists such as the Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky (1866–1944) and the American photographer Man Ray (1890–1976), Japanese print artists in the 20th century who explored non-objec...

Born on Kauaʻi in 1916, Reuben Tam spent his artistic career studying the elemental forces that shape the natural world. Tidal movement across sandbars and shorelines, jagged cliffs, and churning ocean currents are among his favorite sub...

Docents: Debbie Lee and Nancy Whitman The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen Inspired by Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong Lou Meng), Chen's adaption of the 18th-century Chinese classic novel follows the decline of an upper-class...

Docents: Debbie Lee and Nancy Whitman The Red Chamber by Pauline A. Chen Inspired by Cao Xueqin's Dream of the Red Chamber (Hong Lou Meng), Chen's adaption of the 18th-century Chinese classic novel follows the decline of an upper-class...