HONOLULU - There is a place here where a recording of Ravel's "L'Enfant
et les Sortileges" is playing in an endless loop, in a magical setting
on Makiki Heights.

It's in The Contemporary Museum, which is perhaps - along with San
Francisco's Legion of Honor - the most beautifully-located art institution
in the world.

The Ravel installation is from the Walker Art Center's "Hockney Paints
the Stage." It was set up here some 16 years ago, in a building of its
own, David Hockney's red-and-green, fluorescent set for "L'Enfant" in
a dark room.  You can walk around in the pavilion, *inside* the set,
listening to the music.

Then, emerging from the exhibit, you will find yourself in a real dell,
of avocado and Australian lemon-scented gum trees, Viola Frey's large
and grotesque "Two Women and the World" dominating the central clearing,
near Patrick Daughterty's stunning "Na Hale 'O Waiawi," a "tree sculpture"
made of strawberry guava and rose apple saplings.

Opera fan or not, The Contemporary offers all sort of sortileges.  Check
it out at www.tcmhi.org.

Janos Gereben/SF [In Hawaii to 4/10]
www.sfcv.org
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