another last blast (like volcanoes, I can keep erupting every decade or so)

Vorkommnis (Occurence), 1994, oil on canvas, 150x200cm.
By Neo Rauch. He was born in 1961 in Leipzig, East Germany (or what used to be East Germany).

He is *really* great, and his exhibition (Works 1994-2002) at the Honolulu Academy of Arts has been extended until June 3.

I'm sure hordes of tour groups are going through there day and night, but most of the time when I've dropped by, I've had the entire huge gallery to myself. So if you're in Honolulu, this is a really unique opportunity to view an artist of our generation who is witty, highly-symbolic, and somehow down-to-earth in a dazzlingly spiritual way. Although quite a few of his pieces are small, many, like this one, occupy entire walls, and the overtowering effect is eerily like being out-of-doors in the summer.

For the last few years, we've had an extremely enthused curator at the Honolulu Academy of Arts, and the traveling exhibitions have all been fab.