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New design studio opens on Nu'uanu Roberta Oaks in front her new store at Nu'uanu and Pauahi. Credit Noe Tanigawa / Hawaii Public Radio Did you know that Nu'uanu Ave is the center of town? Our major streets, like Beretania and King, are numbered North and South relative to Nu'uanu. This essential thoroughfare is also home to several art hubs, including its newest addition, designer Roberta Oaks' store. Oaks spoke with Noe Tanigawa about opening a brick-and-mortar location during the pandemic, as well as the inspiration for her designs. Roberta Oaks

Your Guide to the Perfect Weekend: February 10-16, 2021 Get into art, share love, celebrate shave ice, bake and enjoy the holiday. February 10, 2021   Navid Najafi will perform during ‘Ohana Day as part of the 2021 Virtual Art Summit. Photo: Courtesy of Hawai‘i Contemporary Art Summit.   Free with registration Listen to keynote speakers, artists, curators, and thinkers from Hawai‘i and around the world known for educational programming focused on art and ideas. They include multi-generational local arts and creative practitioners Jamaica Heolimeleikalani Osorio, the founders of Piliā...

  Credit Daderot/WikimediaCommons / CC BY-SA 3.0 Tobacco heiress Doris Duke fell in love with Islamic culture and art on her round-the world honeymoon. Stopping in Honolulu on her way home, Duke decided to house her collection here, in an Islamic style setting on Diamond Head. After Duke's death, her collection and home opened to the public as the Shangri La Museum of Islamic Art, Culture, and Design. Leslee Michelsen is Curator of Collections and Exhibitions at Shangri La. While the museum is closed, you can find exhibitions and resources online, included its new 8 x 8 exhibition showcasin...

Jessica Morgan and Joan Jonas at the 2020 Verbier Art Summit. Courtesy of Alpimages. In the five years since it launched, Switzerland’s Verbier Art Summit has defined itself as a unique annual retreat where thought leaders in the art industry come together, away from a world of buying and selling, for a weekend to discuss how the cultural sector might create positive change in the larger global landscape.  “Summit” is the ideal word to describe the event: It takes place in the Swiss Alpine village of Verbier, with speakers and guests lodging in the chalets of the esteemed mountaintop c...

5:25 Jan Harada, Executive Director of the HT Hayashi Foundation; Trisha Kehaulani Watson, President of the Kalihi Palama Culture and Arts Society   Island Insurance Foundation on supporting arts and education Dana Tokioka is President and Executive Director of Island Insurance Foundation, which gave away close to $900 thousand in 2020, including seed funding for the new Downtown Art Center. Under Dana's leadership, the foundation also bought the house for Lee Cataluna's play at Kumu Kahua last December and made the digital production free for all viewers. Tokioka joins us to discuss her fou...