![]() ![]() ![]() Kyung An, Assistant Curator, Asian Art, provides curatorial support. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative. Ho Family Foundation Associate Curator of Chinese Art, and Hou Hanru, Consulting Curator, The Robert H. The exhibition is organized by Xiaoyu Weng, The Robert H. Ho Family Foundation Collection at the Guggenheim. All works created through the initiative will form The Robert H. The first exhibition of the initiative, Wang Jianwei: Time Temple (2014–15), featured a sculptural installation, paintings, a film, and a performance by Wang Jianwei, one of China’s leading conceptual artists. The most recent presentation, Tales of Our Time (2016–17), was a group exhibition that included a robot-operated installation of monumental scale, a public tea gathering in an indoor garden setting, and immersive video works to explore and challenge the notion of place. Ho Family Foundation Chinese Art Initiative strengthens the Guggenheim’s collegial network among the Chinese art community and expands the discourse and investigation of contemporary art today. Through the selection of key artists, practices, and issues arising from across Greater China, The Robert H. Launched in 2013, the initiative engages artists, scholars, and curators from around the world to bring intersecting regional and global conversations and contemporary practices to the fore. Each will collaborate with the museum on individual site-specific projects that respond to interconnected ideas proposed by the curators of the initiative. The Dali Lama has visited this tranquil retreat, and you can too.These artists have been selected for their unconventional artistic practices, creative experimentation, and critical reflections on social conditions in a technologically mediated reality. The Wood Valley Temple (below) rests in the verdant Kau Forest Reserve near Pahala, about 40 miles south of the barren expanses of Hawaii Volcanoes National Park. (BTW: You could spend a whole vacation checking out the quaint churches on Maui.) Restored in recent years, this modest enclosure is a short walk up a hill very near the Waihe’e Ridge Trail. Miles north on the windward coast, and centuries older, is Kukuipuka Heiau, which radiates vistas in all directions. Poetically sited on a clearing in the jungle, the church’s thick walls rise to a tall steeple that has stood since 1853. On the opposite side of Maui, just off the Hana Highway, is Kaulanapeuo Church. Vandals recently did damage to the church, which dates from 1859, but locals have formed a nonprofit group that has brought it back to life in stunning fashion. 25-mile, to grassy flats fringed by cocopalms, just above wild Haleki’i Bay. On the delightfully forlorn south coast, not far from the one-horse town of Kaupo, sits the charming Huialoha Church (above). Here are a few places to get your Zen on: No Worries Hawaii, a vacation planning guide, provides a priorized summary of the best churches, holy places, and heiaus-as well as best mountain trails, surfing and snorkeling beaches, swank resorts, shopping, walk-around cool towns, and adventure treks. The Trailblazer guides include directions to many dozens of spiritual spots on each island. And tucked away everywhere (as in everywhere) are the remains of centuries-old Hawaiian heiaus (temples), both grandiose and decrepit, that were dedicated to the various aspects of the Polynesian way of life. Religions from all over the globe have put edifices here, both little and large, in locations to suit any movie director. The Islands are dotted with spritually inspired, knock-your-socks-off beautiful places that in a few minutes will impart a long-lasting emotional lift. Even among the devout, the thought of going to a church or temple while on vacation in Hawaii may seem like a downer. ![]()
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