Events

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

Part of the Honolulu African-American Film Festival 2019 Directed by Barry Jenkins. USA. 2019. 117 mins.For the closing night of the Honolulu African-American Film Festival 2019, celebrate the Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenk...

Part of the Honolulu African-American Film Festival 2019 Directed by Barry Jenkins. USA. 2019. 117 mins.For the closing night of the Honolulu African-American Film Festival 2019, celebrate the Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenk...

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Led by docents Andrea Snyder and Hannah Slovin. In My Father’s Paradise, journalist Ariel Sabar has crafted a fascinating and moving account of both the Jews of Kurdistan and of his relationship with his father. Sabar embarks...

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered—Animated, Live Action and Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winn...

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered—Animated, Live Action and Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winners...

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

Part of the Honolulu African-American Film Festival 2019 Directed by Barry Jenkins. USA. 2019. 117 mins.For the closing night of the Honolulu African-American Film Festival 2019, celebrate the Academy Award-winning director Barry Jenk...

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

For the 14th consecutive year, Shorts HD and Magnolia Pictures present the Oscar-Nominated Short Films. With all three categories offered—Animated, Live Action and Documentary—this is your annual chance to predict the winners...

Led by docents Andrea Snyder and Hannah Slovin. In My Father’s Paradise, journalist Ariel Sabar has crafted a fascinating and moving account of both the Jews of Kurdistan and of his relationship with his father. Sabar embarks...

Honolulu attorney-historian, André Wooten, will present a documentary he recorded on the story of the obelisks of the pharaohs of Egypt that were carved during the independence and ascendancy of KMT-Egypt from 1500 B.C. to 675 B.C...

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

Lecturer: Prof. Troels Kristensen, Aarhus University, Denmark. Admission: Free. The archaeology of ancient Greek and Roman sanctuaries has typically focused on individual buildings and monuments as isolated units. This illustrated...

HoMA brings internationally known Aotearoa/New Zealand artist Lisa Reihana’s 64-minute, panoramic video installation in Pursuit of Venus [infected] to Honolulu. The video reinterprets and brings to life through sound and movement, ...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Marc Fusco. 2018. USA. 92 min.Eli (Ryan Ochoa) gets to know his grandfather Samuel (Hal Linden) for the first time when he makes him the subject of an animated art project for scho...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Claus Räfle. 2017. Germany. German with English Subtitles. 110 min.In June 1943, Germany infamously declared Berlin “judenfrei”—“free of Jews.&rdq...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Mor Loushy and Daniel Sivan. 2018. Israel/Canada. Hebrew, Arabic, English with English subtitles. 95 min.The year is 1992, and Israeli-Palestinian relations are at an all-time...

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

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Éva Gárdos. 2017. Hungary. Hungarian with English Subtitles. 95 min.In Budapest in 1936, a beautiful young girl is found dead and no one seems to want to investi...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Paula Eiselt. 2018. USA. English, Yiddish, Hebrew with English subtitles. 90 min.Set in the Hasidic enclave of Borough Park, Brooklyn, 93Queen follows a group of tenacious Has...

What do we see? What are we documenting? How are we expressing our connection to our community and the environment? There are common threads of interest that unite the artists of Cameraden, “We are documentarians who call Hawai&lsq...

Part of public programming for Lisa Reihana: Emissaries. This panel brings together Nina Tonga, curator Pacific Art at Te Papa and curator of the Honolulu Biennial 2019, along with Julia Nagam and Heather Igloliorte, who are chairs...

The Honolulu Museum of Art is partnering with the Honolulu Biennial Foundation (HBF) as an institutional venue to present artworks by Kapulani Landgraf, Marie Watt, Nicholas Galanin, and the artist collective Postcommodity in conjunction...

This gallery walkthrough will focus on the Honolulu Biennial HoMA artists and will be led by the Native Arts and Cultures Foundation director of national artist fellowships, Reuben Tomás Roqueñi, along with HoMA director of...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Astrid Schult. 2017. Germany. German with English Subtitles. 74 min.On a mission of vigilante justice, a young woman goes to extremes to seek reprisal against a suspected ex-N...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Scott Schwartz. 2019. USA. 90 min.Tovah Feldshuh recreates her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in Golda’s Balcony, The Film, as this final masterpiece by the aut...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Scott Schwartz. 2019. USA. 90 min.Tovah Feldshuh recreates her award-winning performance as Golda Meir in Golda’s Balcony, The Film, as this final masterpiece by the aut...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Francesco Amato. 2016. Italy. Italian with English Subtitles. 98 min.Elia (Toni Servillo, The Great Beauty) is a Jewish psychoanalyst from a purely Freudian school of thought....

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Barry Avrich. 2018. Canada. English and German. 83 min.This gripping documentary by Barry Avrich tells the fascinating story of one man’s lifelong quest for justice for ...

Part of Honolulu Jewish Film Festival 2019. Directed by Ben Lewin. 2018. USA. English, German, Italian, French with English subtitles. 98 min.This gripping, stranger-than-fiction espionage thriller brings to life the incredible tru...

Woodblock prints depicting mandalas and other Buddhist imagery date back to the Muromachi period (1392–1573), long before the popularization of ukiyo-e prints in the 17th century. Though many ukiyo-e artists active during the Edo p...

Part of public programming for Mo‘olelo: Visual Storytelling of Our Connection to the Land. This panel brings together contemporary artist and University of Hawai‘i at Manoa Department of Art Chair, Gaye Chan; contemporary p...

Los Angeles-based artist Hayv Kahraman (b. 1981; Baghdad, Iraq) explores themes of identity, memory, gender, and exile across paintings and sculptures that present and re-present the “colonized” female figure.&...

In partnership with The Merwin Conservancy, the museum hosts an intimate evening in The Green Room with Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer, a plant ecologist, writer, professor, enrolled member of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation, and founding directo...

Part of public programming for Lisa Reihana: Emissaries. Join dancer Madelyn Biven in this movement workshop. Participants will be guided through Lisa Reihana’s in Pursuit of Venus [infected] and will be asked to respond. Mad...