Noguchi museum

Surely you spent all of January going to the quirkiest museums in Brooklyn, but now we’re in the thick of the winter doldrums, despite a few unseasonably warm days. It’s slushy and crummy out there, but you’ve still got to leave the house sometimes. Why not take the opportunity to range a little farther afield?...

Noguchi Museum

By Amy Hau. Learn about the making of the Isamu Noguchi Garden Museum in Long Island City, New York, the first museum in the United States to be founded, designed and installed by a living artist for the display of their work.

Isamu Noguchi, Slide Mantra (1986)

Isamu Noguchi Foundation and Garden Museum🗿🌿 Japanese-American sculptor Isamu Noguchi opened his museum in 1985 at the site of his studio. It features peaceful outdoor sculpture garden and various indoor and outdoor exhibits. While he is most famous for his Noguchi coffee table and Akari light sculptures, the largest collection of his work is largely sculpture which showcases the introspective nature of Isamu’s process. I especially loved the warm curated nature of the gift shop and the…

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Noguchi museum New York

In Queens, New York, enigmatic sculptural works and installations by New York-based studio Objects of Common Interest (OoCI) are currently part of a collaborative exhibition...

Museum of Stones - The Noguchi Museum

The collaborative exhibition with design studio Objects of Common Interest runs through February 13.

With a body of work spanning sculpture, dance, furniture, lightning, and landscapes, Isamu Noguchi is one of the most revered figures in the 20th-century canon. Buckminster Fuller once called described him as "a scientist-artist…one of the rare question-askers and responders" and others have said he's a traditional sculptor who makes contemporary images that relate to history. Historian Martin Friedman notes that "his large-scale architectural conceptions have more in common with the awesome…

‘Akari: Sculpture by Other Means’ allows visitors to experience ways that Isamu Noguchi’s Akari—a modular ecosystem of lightweight, collapsible paper lanterns—can create and transform space.

noguchi museum partners with objects of common interest with the collaborative installation 'hard, soft, and all lit up with nowhere to go'.

Isamu Noguchi

Isamu Noguchi + Teshigahara Sofu • Lonely Tower (1952) #isamunoguchi #teshigaharasofu #ikebana #stilllifestore