It’s official: Hukilau 2010, the east coast’s biggest gathering of tiki lovers, is again being hosted in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida June 10-13.
The Hukilau 2010 featured events:
The Hukilau has the distinct privilege of presenting the Museum of Art Fort Lauderdale’s Oceanic Collection donated by none other than the Mai-Kai itself in the early 1970s. This is [...]
Blogger and Mai Tai enthusiast Tiki Chick discovered Tiki Room merchandise in Walt Disney Word’s Agrabah Bazaar on a trip to Orlando’s Magic Kingdom in October 2009. The Shag-like images on the hat (pictured), t-shirt and button feature Pele, from California’s Tiki Garden, so there’s a good chance that this may be available at Disneyland [...]
Shag released a new tiki-themed print today at his online shop, Shagmart. Rum Rescue is a 12-color serigraph measuring 18.5 x 23.5 inches. The original painting was done for his “Call of Kapu” show in 2004.
$195.00
Buy Rum Rescue print at Shagmart
The site cautions that today is the last day to place orders in order to [...]
Famed lowbrow tiki artist Shag (a.k.a. Josh Agle) was interviewed by art blog LA Weekly as part of their studio tour series. It’s nice behind-the-scenes look at the artist’s space with lots of great pictures of his studio, inspirational art, and work in progress.
Read Artist Studio Tour: Shag at LA Weekly website | Mahalo, Liz!
This amazing and unique show at Strychnin Gallery brings Hawaii to Berlin in the cold months of winter. South Pacific flair, surf and rockabilly, palm fronds, hula skirts, leis, fancy umbrella cocktails, tattoos, hot rods, coconuts and loud Hawaiian shirts: we’ll chase cold December away and bring in the tropics.
Featuring a bright and fun end-of-the-year [...]
Mark Swanson is a former animation artist living and working in Hawaii. His paintings depict island life in a colorful, optimistic fashion sure to appeal to lovers of tiki, Polynesian Pop, and the works of the artist Shag. He was recently contracted by the Walt Disney Company to create a series of works featuring Disney [...]
[ September 12, 2009; 8:00 am; ]
Collectors and connoisseurs of Shag will have a chance purchase a cache of art, merchandise and ephemera spanning his entire career at the first ever Shag Swapmeet. Several important original works will be available for sale, ranging from the bamboo-framed “The Perils of Trying Too Hard,” from 1998 to his signature triptych, “Departure Idlewild, Stopover [...]