After we were refused entry to the Yadnya Kasada Festival, we searched for alternative activities, since we could not enter the festival boundaries. The local guide asked permission for us to attend the Reception Night, where East Java governor Khofifah Indar Parawansa, the first woman governor in Java, would be attending. She was being inaugurated […]
Cuenca – Bienal and Urban Street Art
The Biennial is an international art event held worldwide every two years. It is held in 50 cities, including Venice, Havana, Singapore, Prague, Beijing, Sao Paulo, Barcelona, plus others. Due to Covid, the 15th Bienal de Cuenca was postponed from 2020 and instead runs from December 10, 2021 through February 28, 2022. This year’s Biennial […]
Hawaii – Honolulu Museum of Art
The Honolulu Museum of Art (HoMA) has been called “the finest small museum in the United States” (J. Carter Brown). It was founded in 1922 and houses a museum, art school, art cafe, coffee bar and souvenir shop. The museum is the largest in the state and has the single largest collection of Asian and […]
Hawaii – Steel Guitar Festival 2021
This past Saturday was the 11th annual Steel Guitar Festival. Normally this is a week long event. It was cancelled in 2020 due to COVID restrictions, and this year was constrained to a single day’s event instead of the normal week. There were four professional steel guitar players in the morning, and four young players […]
Hawaii – Zoo
The Honolulu zoo is also only a 10 minute drive from our condo. We have seen some pretty amazing zoos around the world, and were curious what the Honolulu zoo would be like. Every weekend, there is a display of “Art on the Zoo Fence”, where local artists hang their works on the fence, and […]
Hawaii – Plein Air Painting 1
One aspect of art that Evelyn loved in California was painting en Plein Air, which is painting on site, outdoors. Because of the weather in Hawaii, outdoor activities are the standard. In Cuenca, the opportunities were quite limited, whereas in Oahu, there are four different groups that paint outdoors weekly. As a result, Evelyn gets […]
Cuenca Artists Celebrate Cafe Reopening 2020
More than 120 people packed the inside and outside the Casa Azul cafe to welcome the new owners, Jose and Vivi, as they reopened a favorite artist’s haunt originally created by Gregory Kluyskens, a charismatic Belgium entrepreneur. Everyone was asking how we could display 6 artists in such a small gallery. When the furniture was […]
Oaxaca, Mexico 8 – Wrap Up
We have come to the end of our three week visit to Oaxaca, so let’s wrap up with some overall impressions. There are a few things that stand out and can’t help but be appreciated. First is the weather. We were here during late November and early December. The temperature was between the mid- 70’s […]
Photographer Of The Year 2019
Last month, I was surprised when people started sending me congratulatory email and Face Book messages, as well as congratulating me on the street. Maybe they were commenting on the photo show Evelyn and I had completed the prior month… but then why the month delay? To my surprise, I discovered that I had just […]
Evelyn Wins First Place – Christmas Photo Contest
Christmas in Cuenca culminated with Evelyn being selected as the winner of the Cuenca Dispatch and CuencaHighLife Christmas photo contest. The winning photo shows a girl holding a candle at the annual International Chorale Christmas concert, seen above. December is always a busy month for us in Cuenca. There are always so many choices that all […]