Esoteric Survey

Rickey and palms in front of the former Honolulu Academy of Art
Report from Honolulu: A random sample of great Mid-Pacific Modernism  Photos and text by Dave Hampton
Best State Capitol Building, Period Designed by John Carl Warnecke and Architects Hawaii Ltd., 1969


Tadashi Sato's Aquarius mural in the central court
Light Reflections by Tadashi Sato is in the Senate President's office (the capitol serves as one of the showcases for  Hawaii's Art in Public Places Program)
At the Hawaii State Art Museum: Satoru Abe's sculpture East and West (left) and Harry Tsuchidana's triptych (right)
Palaka, Alice Kagawa Parrott
(left to right) East and West, Satoru Abe; Far the Stillness, Tetsuo Ochikubo; Garden Piece,  Toshiko Takaezu; Composition, Tadashi Sato
Cloaked Figure by Claude Horan
Hawaii Landscape, Shige Yamada

The ferry ride out to Naoshima.
This Yayoi Kusama sculpture is next to the ferry landing.
This is the view from my room at the Benesse House Park hotel. Tadao Ando designed the hotel and the adjoining museum.  Those are George Rickey sculptures in the reflecting pool. There was a Helen Frankenthaler print hanging in the room. Not bad for hotel art.
Art at the Benesse House Park
Another Yayoi Kusama sculpture. This one is in front of the Benesse House Park site.
Look at the framed piece! 
Bruce Nauman neon piece in the Benesse House Museum.  They also had a great Cy Twombly and a pretty good Donald Judd.
Benesse House Museum
Benesse House Museum I thought this was an actual plant growing inside the museum but it's a wood sculpture by Yoshihiro Suda.
Benesse House Museum
 Dinner at the Benesse House Museum Restaurant, Issen. They made me a special vegetarian meal.  It was nine unbelievable courses of beautiful and delicious food.

The George Rickey sculpture went for $95k
Dunbar cabinet with Natzler tiles went for $9k
The Natzler ceramic insterts 
This Natzler is amazing.   It was included in a grouping of four that seemed to be a real deal at $3,250. Less than $1,000 each? 
The Buckminster Fuller globe is way bigger than it looked in the catalog. Passed
I can't believe this Neutra lamp passed too
Grossman continues to go nuts at auction- $12k for this desk.

Greta Grossman for Brown Saltman- $14k
Some great hard edge paintings
Paul Tuttle chair from 1960 Passed
The Schindler lots were great to see.  The original upholstery on the chair is outstanding. The desk sold for $17k and the chair for $18k