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Bishop Museum Hosts Media Preview of Its Newest Exhibition, Corned Beef & Kalo

Bishop Museum invites media to an exclusive preview of Corned Beef & Kalo, featuring works by Michel Tuffery and Bernice Akamine exploring food imports, land use, and sustainability.

# Bishop Museum Hosts Media Preview of Its Newest Exhibition, Corned Beef & Kalo

Honolulu, Hawaiʻi — Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the State of Hawai'i Museum of Natural and Cultural History, invites members of the news media to an exclusive, pre-opening, closed-door preview of its newest exhibition, Corned Beef & Kalo.

Corned Beef & Kalo, curated by Healoha Johnston, Bishop Museum director of Cultural Resources and curator for Hawaiʻi and Pacific Arts and Culture, will feature Pisupo lua afe (Corned Beef 2000) by Michel Tuffery, and KALO by Bernice Akamine. The exhibition brings together two iconic works of contemporary art to consider how artists make visible issues related to agricultural subsistence, environmental sustainability, and everyday life where food imports and structured land use intertwine.

Media Preview of Corned Beef & Kalo

  • Thursday, March 7, 2024
  • 1-4 p.m. HST
  • Bishop Museum, J. M. Long Gallery, Hawaiian Hall Complex
  • Please RSVP with Lance Aquino via the contact information above

Interview opportunities:

  • Bishop Museum Director of Cultural Resources and Exhibition Curator Healoha Johnston
  • Bishop Museum Director of Exhibits and Corned Beef & Kalo Exhibit Designer Brad Evans
  • Makahiapo Cashman, Director of Kānewai at Hawai'inuiākea School of Hawaiian Knowledge, and co-organizer of the 16th Annual Mālama Hāloa Kalo Festival & Symposium, held this year for the first time at Bishop Museum

Corned Beef & Kalo opens to the public in Bishop Museum's J. M. Long Gallery in Hawaiian Hall on Saturday, March 9, 2023, and runs through Sept. 8, 2024. Additional information and tickets can be found at BishopMuseum.org.

About Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, the State of Hawaiʻi Museum of Natural and Cultural History

Bishop Museum’s mission is to inspire our community and visitors through the exploration, celebration, and perpetuation of the extraordinary history, culture, and environment of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific. The Museum was founded in 1889 by Charles Reed Bishop in memory of his wife Bernice Pauahi Bishop, a royal descendant of King Kamehameha I. Today, the Museum thrives as an educational center for the community and is widely regarded as the world’s premier institution for Hawaiian and Pacific content.

Bishop Museum’s vast collections of more than 25 million objects and specimens represent nine disciplines and include more than 22 million biological specimens, over 2 million cultural objects, 115,000 historical publications, and 1 million photographs, films, works of art, audio recordings, and manuscripts. These collections tell the stories of the cultures and biodiversity of Hawaiʻi and the Pacific as well as the proud legacy of scholarly research spanning 130 years.

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Bishop Museum Press is Hawaiʻi’s oldest book publisher and one of the first scholarly publishers in the Western Hemisphere, and has published over 1,200 titles and distributed over 1 million books in 72 countries worldwide. Bishop Museum hosts a restaurant and gift shop on campus, Tūtū’s Place by Highway Inn and Shop Pacifica by Nā Mea Hawaiʻi.